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STRAP END
Unique ID: SWYOR-5BBF47
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A copper alloy composite strap end of Medieval date, about AD 1330 - 1450. The tapering strap end consists of a thick sheet central spacer, with the upper and lower plates. The closed end terminates in a collared acorn knop. The side view shows that the knop is formed from only the spacer, the plates terminating at the collar. At the attachment end, one plate terminates in a zigzag shaped end while the other is square. There is one circular perforation to take a rivet in the centre of the attachment end. Instead of the rivet is a piece of wire passed through the hole and round the end of the strap end 3 times (presumabely originally piercing the woven fabric strap). This wire is probably a later repair. Part of the cloth strap survives between the plates. The strap end has a dark green patina and is not decorated. It is 54.7mm long, 9.9mm wide and 4.1mm thick. it weighs 7.55gm.
A similar strap end, attributed to the first half of the fifteenth century, is illustrated in Egan and Pritchard, 1991, Dress Accessories,1150 - 1450, page 144, number 675. Examples of strap ends with Acorn shaped terminals in the same book range in date from AD 1330 - 1450.
Class:
Composite
Evidence of reuse: rivet repaired with wire
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1330
Date to: Circa AD 1450
Period of reuse: MEDIEVAL
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 54.7 mm
Width: 9.9 mm
Thickness: 4.1 mm
Weight: 7.55 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 13th April 2015 - Sunday 26th April 2015
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: PAS form number 2611
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Textile
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wakefield (Metropolitan District)
District: Wakefield (Metropolitan District)
Parish or ward: Pontefract North (Metropolitan District Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE4722
Four figure Latitude: 53.69233931
Four figure longitude: -1.28971556
1:25K map: SE4722
1:10K map: SE42SE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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