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Description: | Incomplete unusual medieval copper alloy possible strap end, shield-shaped front plate with rounded base and twin rivet-holes at attachment-end. The face has traces of possibly pseudo-heraldic decoration comprising two small salitires above a horizontal line which truncates a chevron formed by four oblique lines with a single vertical line running from the inner apex of the chevron to the centre of the base, which is pierced by a single rivet-hole. There are slight remains of a separate soldered flange running around the sides and base on the reverse. Three short lengths of copper alloy wire were inserted into each rivet-hole and bent to link to each other on the reverse to form a Y-shaped arrangement, how this arrangement would have worked in uncertain. These have subsequently become detached. Length 20mm. Width 16mm. Possibly 14th-15th century.
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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