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Description: | An incomplete Medieval (1270-1350) copper alloy openwork strap-end, broken at one end. It measures 35.43x17.08x2.17mm and weighs 4.11g.The surviving end is trefoil with a tiny (0.8mm diameter) rivet hole at the centre, countersunk to the reverse (1.4mm diameter). Below is a neck with an incurved edge, and beyond this the incomplete openwork plate. This comprises a rectangular area with two rivet holes c.1.7mm diameter and countersunk to the decorated front side (1.5mm diameter to the reverse). From here project three arms, one of which is now just a stump, to the oldish break. This face is decorated with rocker arm, through the centre of the trefoil and neck, around the rectangular area and along the three arms.The object is very similar to one from London in Egan and Pritchard (1991) no.608. This was found in a context dated c.1270-1350 and described as a strap-end. Since then however a very similar buckle HAMP1875 has been discovered with a pin in its large rivet hole (missing on our example) and an incomplete buckle frame extending beyond. Perhaps Egan and Pritchard's example has been mis-identified as a strap-end due to its entirely missing frame.
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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