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Description: | Copper-alloy flat external plate from a Medieval composite strap end with incised decoration. The piece is sub-rectangular. There are relatively straight, patinated, breaks at each end and the original shape of the ends is lost. The sides are straight but slightly converging as it narrows from 20.0mm wide at one end to 18.4mm at the other. At the strap attachment end the break has occurred across a circular cut out in the centre of the plate with a short groove running down the plate from it. Any attachment holes were in the lost sections. The front is decorated over the entire remaining section with incised decoration. A pair of gradually converging lines run down the centre with regularly spaced but wide apart diagonal lines running between them. Each side is divided into two rows of trapezoids by converging diagonal lines running between the central lines and an outer line border on each side. The outer row of trapezoids (with their points towards the centre) are filled with rocker arm decoration. It is bent back on itself 180 degrees and is now 26.3mm long, the plate is 1.0mm thick; it weighs 4.54 grams.For a strap-end with similar decoration see Griffiths et al. (2007, 135; ref. 1571) and HAMP-0B5561 on this database. Both are thought to come from strap ends with forked spacers which date from the late 13th to early 15th centuries (Griffiths et al (ibid:134)). The circular cut out with groove running from it seen at one end of this example is a feature of the plates on such strap ends, Egan and Pritchard (1991:80) suggest it may have deliberately marked out these strap ends from the cheaper types with simple side strips.
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