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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy strap fitting, rectangular in shape measuring 24mm in width and 18mm in length, it is incomplete due to an old break. One end is split, and would perhaps have been the attachment end of a strap-end, the other end is broken and solid. The front face is decorated with a V-shaped groove, below the split end, with a ring-and-dot design in its centre, below this there are two opposing U-shaped grooves on their sides with the open ends of the 'U' facing the edges, these also have a ring-and-dot design in their centre. Near to the complete edges there is also a smaller longditudinal groove. The back face is undecorated. No exact parallel could be found for this strap-end, especially as its original shape, which may have been rectangular or tapered to a rounded end at the missing terminal, is not known. However, it is similar in form to Gabor Thomas's type E strap-ends, which are dated to between the 10th and 11th centuries (Geake 2001, Illustration 11). The grooved and ring-and-dot decoration would also be compatible with this date. | Subjects: | Strap end | 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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