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Description: | A cast copper-alloy strap fitting of Post-Medieval date. It has a dome-shaped plate with concave back face and slightly faceted front face. At the top of the plate is an integrally cast hemispherical terminal with central circular rivet hole that contains the corroded remains of an iron rivet. The base of the plate has a transverse collar from which extends an integrally cast hook that is oval in section ad tapers backwards to a rounded point. On the back face of the collar are the remains of an integrally cast cylindrical rivet that is now incompete due to old breaks. The entire object measures 34.48mm in length, 13.04mm in width, 8.22mm in thickness and 5.43g in weight.This is a strap fitting of Post-Medieval date that finds close parallels in examples published by Read (2008: nos. 813-814). It is of probabe 16th-17th century AD date. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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