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Description: | An incomplete, composite (three piece with shete spacer) copper-alloy strap end dating from the Medieval period, AD 1330 - 1450. The remaining portion consists of the rectangular sheet central spacer, with the upper and lower plates surviving only at the closed end. The closed end terminates in a collared acorn knop. The side view shows that the knop is formed from all three sheets of metal, the outer plates being three-dimensioally moulded and with detail on the cup of the acorn. The outer plates are broken at the neck of the terminal and the rest is missing. There is one circular perforation to take a rivet in the centre of the attachment end; the rivet is missing. The strap end has a dark green patina. It is 37.8mm long 10mm wide and 4mm thick. It weighs 2.3gm.A similar strap end, attributed to the first half of the fifteenth century, is illustrated in Egan and Pritchard, 1991, Dress Accessories,1150 - 1450, page 144, number 675, but the construction ofthe terminal is different. Examples of strap ends with Acorn shaped terminals in the same book range in date from AD 1330 - 1450.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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