|
Date: |
|
Description: | One-piece copper-alloy strap-end consisting of rectangular split socket with one rivet hole containing an copper-alloy rivet (length 5.5mm, gap 3.5mm), and solid globular terminal, diameter 14mm. Length 28mm. The split continues from the socket for 11mm into the terminal. Similar objects with solid terminals, often decorated with tiny bosses, have been recorded from Brampton (HER 35055), Burgh Castle (HER 49788), Old Catton (HER 24898), Stow Bardolph (HER 31513) and Burgh and Tuttington (HER 50157). A rather more elongated example was found in Barton Bendish (HER 17212). Neither Thomas (2003) nor Hinton (1996) includes any comparable objects. However, the integral split for the strap suggests a late Roman or Middle/Late Saxon date, and the most likely period of manufacture and use is in the 8th and 9th centuries.A number of broadly similar objects have been recorded by the PAS, and given a variety of date ranges: Isleham, Suffolk (SF-7003F7) AD 1400-1540); Freckenham, Suffolk (SF9057) undated; Folkingham, Lincolnshire (LIN-019967) AD 1066-1499; Lenton Keisby and Osgody, Lincs (LIN-153C04) AD 1250-1499; Keelby, Lincs (LIN-3606A4) AD 43-1499; South Ormsby cum Ketsby, Lincs (LIN-CD28E6) AD 43-1500; Little Steeping, Lincs (LIN-019967) AD 1300-1400; Styrrup with Oldcotes, Nottinghamshire (SWYOR-1D5F98) AD 43-1800; Doncaster, Yorkshire (LVPL-560210) AD 1100-1300; Stonegrave, Yorkshire (YORYM-453EA1) AD 1200-1500). A strap-end from Upton Scudamore, Wiltshire, that resembles the above but terminates in a Romanesque animal head, was dated to the second half of the 11th or the 12th cent. (WILT-8F33A4). The bulbous element of all of these is solid, in contrast to hollow-headed examples from Congham (HER 30754), Beeston with Bittering (HER 4084) and Thetford, Norfolk (Goodall, A.R. in Rogerson and Dallas EAA 22, fig. 112 no. 52).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
-
Strap End
Middle/Late Saxon one-piece strap-end consisting…
-
STRAP END
Middle/Late Saxon one-piece strap-end consisting…
-
STRAP END
An incomplete one-piece strap-end, with…
-
STRAP END
A probable cast copper-alloy Medieval…
-
Strap End
Middle/Late Saxon one-piece copper alloy…
-
STRAP END
Middle/Late Saxon one-piece copper alloy…
-
-
strap end
Middle Saxon one-piece copper alloy…
-
STRAP END
Middle Saxon one-piece copper alloy…
|