The Portable Antiquities Scheme
MEDIEVAL STRAP FITTING
1066
Flat rectangular copper-alloy mount measuring 29 x 15 mm, with a central hole measuring 5 mm in diameter. It is in excellent condition, with a highly polished front; this has bevelled edges and is decorated with a border of rocker-arm engraving around a saltire of similar rocker-arm which is cut by the hole. There is a separate copper-alloy rivet in the centre of each short edge; the rivets are 4 mm long. This mount may be purely decorative, or it may have served to reinforce the holes for the pin.
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