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Description: | An incomplete Late Medieval copper alloy composite strap end, missing part of its openwork projection and its backplate. The strap end is of crescent shape and the surviving upper plate decorated with crudely incised lines and grooves. This plate is C-shaped, being widest at the centre and tapering to either end. The four rivet holes are present, two of which contain corroded rivets. Projecting outwards from the widest point is an openwork area which would originally have been triangular in form, although it is now squarish due to breakage. Parallels on the PAS database include HAMP-D716B2 BH-8879E6, SUR-868360 and SUSS-AE6FA1). Fingerlin (1971, Abb. 314, Kat. Nr. 239) quoted in Geake (2001: 31) dates these to the first half of the 15th century and suggests the lobed terminals are supposed to resemble a tree with the incised lines on the crescent representing roots.
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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