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Description: | A Medieval (1270-1450) copper alloy composite strap-end, with a front and back plate and a forked spacer between. Between the plates it retains several pieces of organic material with a heavy plaited weave.The plates are just narrower than the forked spacer and have gently expanding sides, from c.16.5mm to c.20mm at the open end, which is incurved. The back plate has three rivet holes along this edge (at the centre and each corner; the corner holes retain their rivets). One corner is damaged and broken across the rivet hole. The front plate has a circular aperture extending from the centre of the incurved edge with a triangular groove extending into the body of the plate. At either corner is a rivet hole with the rivet still visible. There is a line of rocker-arm decoration along both long edges and parallel along the centre. A diagonally-arranged line of rocker-arm joins the central line with either outside line, at the open end. Both narrower ends of the plates are damaged, although the front plate appears to be cut to a point and the back plate in an outward curve.The forked spacer is U-shaped with slightly squared corners and a projecting moulded-in-the-round acorn knop above a transverse rib collar.The strap-end measures 58.53mm in length, 21.05mm in max.width, 4.04mm in thickness and 7.95mm in depth (where the back plate is bent at an angle). It weighs 10.23g.
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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