MEDIEVAL STRAP FITTING

1300

Copper-alloy strap-end made from two sheets of copper alloy. It is a long rectangle in shape, with all edges now a little damaged; the surviving width is 9 mm and the length47 mm. The top sheet is decorated with a saltire of rocker-arm engraving, and both sheets are cut into a decorative terminal consisting of a transverse lobe and a rounded end. There is a single separate copper-alloy rivet at the attachment end, which retains a scrap of pale textile between the two sheets. Another at the terminal has now come adrift from the upper sheet. This strap-end is of composite type, although it is made up of only two sheets.