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Description: | A copper alloy probable strap end of early-Medieval date, AD 500 - 1000. It is constructed of folded sheet copper alloy and is broadest at the folded, outer end, tapering towards the inner attachment end, where there is a single copper alloy fastening rivet. This rivet has broken, but remains in place in the rivet hole. The terminal at the attachment end is rounded, with a slight constricted neck before the main plate. There is some simple decoration on the upper surface consisting of two narrow, transverse grooves adjacent to the rivet hole. The strap end has a smooth, dark brown patina. It is 29.3mm long, 7.7mm wide and 3.3mm thick. It weighs 1.57gm.Finding a parallel for this strap end, slightly unusual inbeng wider at the folded end than at the attachment end, has been a little tricky. Compare number 35.3 on page 208 of Macgregor and Bolick, 1993. See also Evans and Loveluck, 2009, Life and Economy at Early Medieval Flixborough AD600 - 1000, volume 2, pages 7 - 11. Compare for example figure 1.4, numbers 68 and 75.
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