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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy Medieval (c.1250-1450) possible binding strip from a casket, or possibly a buckle frame with integral plate. It consists of strip, parallel-sided and D-shaped in cross-section (being flat to the underside) with a circular, knopped expansion at one end with a piercing for an in situ rivet and a break at the other, apparently across another circular expansion with a rivet hole (missing its rivet). To one side of this extends a narrowing, bent arm.The strip measures c.5.5mm in width and thins from 2.11mm at the broken end to 1.43mm thick just before the complete circular expansion. It is decorated with moulded transverse ribs.The circular expansion measures 8.58mm wide and has a 3.37mm diameter rivet at its centre. This is 4.98mm in height and has a square rove (6.7x6.9x0.7mm to the reverse of sheet copper alloy (a different copper alloy to that of the rivet and the object itself). To the other side of the circular expansion if a rounded triangular knop, c.4mm long, max.3.5mm wide and 1.23mm thick.At the broken end, the damaged circular expansion (only around one third survives) measures 7.52mm in width with an incomplete rivet hole c.3mm in width. The extending arm is D-shaped in cross-section (being flat to the reverse) and narrows from 3.6x1.6mm to 1.5x1mm at the end. Its length is now (bent) 9.8mm; it would have originally been c.18mm in length.All original patina has been lost and the metal is now a purple/ brown in colour.The object measures 42.56mm in length, 16.10mm in max.width and 5.01mm in max.thickness. It weighs 3.40g.
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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