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Description: | A cast copper-alloy spacer plate from a medieval composite strap-end with large acorn knop terminal. The front and back sheet plates are missing. The spacer section (above the collar) has a flat crescentic plate formed of two prongs. Both are rectangular in cross-section and taper slightly from the plate. The inner edge has not been filed down, especially at the centre. Also at the centre is a perforation for attachment, recessed on one side. Below the expanded sub-rectangular collar, which marks the point the plates would have ended, there is a waist and then the terminal expands into a well moulded acorn knop 8.2mm long by 7.2mm. Both parts are plain. Similar strap-ends can be found illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 141; fig. 92) and Margeson (1993, 35; ref. 236) who date them to the 14th century. This artefact has a dark-grey/green patina with some patches of lighter green corrosion product on the prongs.
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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