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Description: | A copper-alloy medieval composite strap-end of elaborate form (c. 14th century AD). It is of composite, three-piece construction, formed of a sheet spacer plate occupying the whole width, between a pair of sheets. The sheets are reminiscent of the more elaborate of the shield-shaped plates that tend to have bar mounts at the attachment edge illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 157; fig. 103). They are flat at the attachment end with a central perforation; on one of the sheets the rivet is retained; the other sheet has buckled out at the rivet no longer meets it. At the centre of the sheets is a waist 7.7mm wide. There is a nick at each point to define where the curve begins at the side. The terminal of the sheets is rounded with a central triangular protrusion defined by a nick to give the terminal a broad fleur-de-lis shape. A second rivet survives in place just above the protrusion and has been very well finished to the sheet's surface. It passes through the spacer as well as the sheets. The spacer plate occupies the base of the strap-end as implied, travelling up the object for just over a third of its length. It measures c. 12.4mm including the protrusion. The object has an even mid-green patina.
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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