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Description: | An incomplete medieval copper alloy composite strap-end complete with forked spacer and two sheet plates dating to AD 1350-1450. The front copper-alloy sheet is damaged and incomplete. It measures 65.95mm in length, 16.65mm wide, 5.2mm thick and weighs 11.65 grams.The strap end is held together with two c.2.2mm diameter rivets, one at either corner of the open end. Between is a circular aperture which is 4.2mm in diameter on the front face and 2.85mm on the reverse. It tapers over its length (c.66mm) to 14.95mm wide before curving steeply inwards on both sides to 6.55mm. It is here the plates terminate and the collared acorn knop on forked spacer projects.The plate on the underside is plain, the upper plate is decorated with rocker-arm or zig-zag decoration which runs along both edges of the strap end. within the rocker arm decoration are triangular punches.Both plates are c.1mm thick and the bottom plate has come away from the forked spacer towards the knopped end.Cf. a very similar example with rocker-arm or zig-zag decoration in Finds From Medieval York (Ottaway and Rogers, 2002) no.14712, which is suggested to be of similar date to Meols 14364 found in a context dateing from the mid 14th to early 15th century (Ottaway and Rogers, 2002; pp.2900-02).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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