MEDIEVAL STRAP FITTING

1300

Copper-alloy composite strap-end, made from three pieces of copper-alloy sheet sandwiched together. The middle piece is thicker but shorter and functions as a spacer plate. The lower plate has broken and a little over half survives. The upper plate is decorated with a border of rocker-arm engraving along each long edge, and a row of saltires of rocker-arm in between. The two outer plates are held together by a single copper-alloy rivet at the attachment end, and all three plates are held together at the other end by solder. The strap-end is 10 mm wide at the attachment end, and tapers to 8 mm wide at the other end before a curved cut-out on either side forms a pointed and then straight cut or broken terminal.