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Description: | Cast copper alloy strap end of Medieval date. The strap end has a straight, rectangular attachment end from which it tapers gradually but consistently to the terminal. The terminal has been shaped with cut outs each side creating a constriction, leaving an almost circular terminal. There is a split at the attachment end to create a slot between the front and back for the strap, this is filled with mud. This split then runs as a seam down one side and round the terminal, the other side is solid, indicating the strap end is made of one piece of sheet folded longitudinally with the fold down one long edge and the two edges of the sheet meeting along the other edge. There is a single separate circular copper alloy rivet through the centre of the attachment end. The ends of the rivet are flush with the front and back and therefore not very clear. Parallel diagonal incised lines on one face at the attachment end may be deliberate decoration but are now worn and indistinct. The rest appears plain and undecorated. The edges are chipped in places as are the top corners. It is 42.3 long and 10.9 mm wide, 2.1 mm thick at the terminal and 3.1 at the attachment end. It weighs 4.10 grams including the mud.Egan and Pritchard (1991:161) suggest such strap ends were produced in the 14th century, They illustrate a longer example, no.605 inwhich the terminal has also been shaped by cut outs, although more elaborately, and suggest that decoration, if present is normally confined to the attachment end..
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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