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Description: | Medieval copper-alloy stirrup-shaped strap-slide, 26mm long, 18mm wide and 5mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 3.05g. It is sub-rectangular in form with one rounded end; it is rectangular in cross-section, and its rounded end has a sub spherical knop in its centre. The object has a small hole in the centre of its flat side, which would have held a separate rivet attaching it to the strap. Strap-slides held down the free end of a strap, and examples such as this one were probably high so that prominent mounts could pass through them. Compare WILT-3435D8 and HAMP-580746.
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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