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Unique ID: SOM-0326D2
Object type certainty: Certain
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A cast copper-alloy external plate from a Medieval composite strap end with incised decoration. The piece is sub-rectangular. At the attachment end is a fairly regular old break. The sides are straight but slightly converging with damaged edges along most of their length. The terminal is also damaged but enough survives to suggest it was triangular, possibly with rounded corners and an exaggerated point in the centre. Any attachment holes were in the lost sections. The front is decorated over the entire remaining section with incised decoration. A pair of gradually converging lines run down the centre. Each side is divided into two rows of triangles by converging diagonal lines. The outer row of triangles (with their points towards the centre) are filled with rocker arm decoration. It is bent up at 60 degrees at the end and is now 41.6mm long, 25.1mm wide and 1.3mm thick; it weighs 6.15 grams.
For a strap-end with similar decoration see Griffiths et al. (2007, 135; ref. 1571) and HAMP-0B5561 on this database. Both are thought to come from strap ends with forked spacers which date from the late 13th to early 15th centuries (Griffiths et al (ibid:134))
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1275
Date to: Circa AD 1425
Quantity: 1
Length: 41.6 mm
Width: 25.1 mm
Thickness: 1.3 mm
Weight: 6.15 g
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 4th July 2011
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Other reference: SCC reciept 020840
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Griffiths, D., Philpott. R. and Egan, G. | 2007 | Meols: The Archaeology of the North West Wirral Coast | Oxford | Oxford University School of Archaeology | 134, 135 | 1571 | |
Griffiths, D., Philpott. R. and Egan, G. | 2007 | Meols: The Archaeology of the North West Wirral Coast | Oxford | Oxford University School of Archaeology | 135 | 1571, 1605 |