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Description: | Double sheet copper-alloy strap end with bent sides in the form of a shield in plan with a lobed knop extension at the terminal end. The face plate is incised with foliage, which consistes of scrolls and tendrils, within a tressure of arches which is in turn within a border that alternates between pointed triangles and circular lobes. The back plate has keyhole-shaped openwork surrounded by four rivets extant in four rivet holes in each corner. The aperture, although keyhole-shaped, would not have taken a key as there is no aperture in the other plate, and the distance between the two plates is only 2.4 mm, just enough to hold a leather strap. This style of strap end may be imitating earlier examples of strap clasps that had an aperture for a toggle to pass through the slot and turn to hold a cover in place, as illustrated in Ottaway & Rogers (2002) on page 2898, Fig.1474, Nos.13349-50, which are dated from the 14th to the 15th century.Read (1988) illustrates a similar example from Cockington, Torquay, Devon, on page 66, No.342, which is dated from the 15th to the 16th century.
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