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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy Anglo Saxon strap end. This strap end is of Gabor Thomas's Type A, which he dates to the late 8th to the late 9th century (Geake 2001). It is 39mm in length and 13mm in width. The attachment end is missing due to an old break. Most of the central rectangular panel, which contains niello and small spirals of silver wire, remains. Either side of this panel there is a longdituinal groove with transverse grooves running from it to the edge. Below the rectangular panel there is an animal head terminal, with pointed oval shaped ears and oval shaped eyes with circular indentations in the centre. On the forehead and top of the snout there are two more pieces of curvilinear silver wire. The tip of the snout has a vertical groove in it. The back face os this strap end is undecorated. | Subjects: | Strap end Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Minter, Faye - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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