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Description: | A copper-alloy strap end of medieval date. The body of the strap end is a truncated triangle, flaring to the attachment end. It consists of a cast upper part and a thin copper-alloy sheet riveted to the upper plate with two copper alloy rivets, one at either end, forming the lower plate. In profile the lower plate bends away from the upper plate. The upper plate has a narrowed neck leading to a terminal in the shape of a moulded stylised animal head. The head has three obliquely angled grooves on either side of the head forming V shapes, and is sub-rectangular in cross-section. The surface of the strap end has a well developed dark green/grey coloured patina. It measures 28.59mm long, 88.74mm wide, 3.92mm thick and weighs 2.2g.This strap-end is a zoomorphic version of the type with human head illustrated in Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 614, from a late 14th-century context. An almost identical example has been recorded from Worcestershire, WAW-AFFB20.
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