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Description: | Incomplete Medieval copper-alloy casket or box fitting. The item is probably part of a strap binding. The strap is essentially an elongated flat rectangle, rectangular in section with a rounded terminal at one end and a break at the other. The rounded terminal has a single circular rivet hole through it and there is a narrow tongue-shaped knop projecting from the tip of this rounded terminal. The strap is bent twice so that it appears 'stepped' in profile. The reverse of the strap is plain but the front is decorated with a pattern of transverse grooves and ridges including sections of incised cross-hatching with some traces of degraded gilding being present on the cross-hatched sections.See Egan 1998, ''The Medieval Household', p.71-3, no.s 145 & 147 for similarly designed strap mounts dated from the 12th to 13th centuries, c.1100-1300.
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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