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Description: | A medieval strap-fitting, designed for the suspension of an item, such as a purse, from a belt, or as a belt slide. The fitting is broken into two parts. A roughly rectangular aperture is fashioned to take the insertion of a strap. The shaft is bent to form a hook which ends in a zoomorphic terminal resembling a dragon's head. At the base of the neck of the beast is soldered a shield engraved with the initials EL, probably signifying the name of the owner.The strap-fitting is silver and dates from the fourteenth century. Two similarly constructed silver-gilt strap fittings with figurative decoration were found with the Chalcis hoard on the island of Euboea, Greece, now at the British Museum (PE AF 2781 and 2782).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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