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Description: | Cast copper alloy composite strap end with a forked spacer but missing its two plates, on either side of the spacer, which would have held the leather strap between them. The spacer has a stepped transverse ridge above a semi-circular terminal, plano-convex in profile, with a central rivet hole, 2.8 mm in diameter, which then tapers to a zoomorphic loop with a circular perforation, 2.4 mm in diameter in the middle of the head. The loop is in the form of a stylised dragon head with an open mouth and everted snout and two incised ridges, one like a brow-ridge, on the upper edge above the loop-hole, which could form an eye, but is in the area of the cheek. The loop is at right angles to the rest of the strap-end and comparative examples from the Continent suggest that these ends form pairs which were connected by a hook and possibly a chain, and might have been used as book fasteners rather than worn with dress (Egan & Pritchard, 2002, 155).Egan & Pritchard (2002) illustrate strap ends with forked spacers and zoomorphic terminal on pages 144 & 154, Figs.94 & 101, which generally date from c.1350-1450.The closest parallel on the database is BH-379BB7, with two similar but hinged examples in DENO-D04BE4 and SOMDOR-F28505.
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