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Medieval strap-end
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Winchester Museums Service, Katie Hinds, 2014-04-07 12:08:25
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Medieval strap-end
Description
English: An incomplete Medieval (1350 - 1450) copper alloy strap-end 'buckle' consisting of a damaged socket and a fragment of probable "lyre-shaped" openwork frame only. The object measures 38.18x25.92x7.78mm and weighs 14.26g.

On the front of the socket is probable black letter script, apparently consisting of two letters, possibly GG or TT or a combination. However the second letter is obscured by a loss of patina and fabric at the open end and the top of the letter has been lost. The first letter is a possible G or T. The field surrounding the script is decorated with tiny diagonal and vertical grooved strokes.
To the reverse the strap-end is smooth and undecorated with a rivet hole in each corner of the open end. One of these contains iron corrosion.
The socket is 7.78mm high (internal max.4.40mm) although a little bent out of shape. The socket end narrows to 15.08mm wide before widening to 19.80mm, at which point it is decorated with two transverse grooves and pierced with a hole (4.28mm) for the missing pin. To either end of this and extending forwards (c.7x2.3mm) and the incomplete arms of the openwork frame. Both are decorated with a circular punch mark towards the outside edge and a vertical groove along the centre.

Ward Perkins states that these types of decorative strap end represent 'the final elaboration of the 13th-14th century belt-chape. Soon after 1400 a new form of narrow sword belt came into use; and civilian belts with pendant tags went temporarily out of fashion'. He also states that 'these large chapes, often with an elaborate leaf-terminal, belong to the period c. 1390-1410, when they are found on a number of brasses, both civil and military.'
Depicted place (County of findspot) Hampshire
Date between 1350 and 1450
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1350-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
FindID: 610140
Old ref: HAMP-F2D8D7
Filename: HAMP-F2D8D7.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/463808
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/463808/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/610140
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