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Description: | A small silver Anglo-Saxon strap-end of sub-triangular form terminating in a stylised animal mask with comma shaped ears and split at the other end for attachment to a narrow strap by one rivet. The rivet is missing, as is the top of the front plate. The central panel is filled with a contorted animal which was originally set against a background of black niello inlay, since lost. The animal??s head turns over its body with lolling tongue. Forelegs are depicted but the lower torso tapers into a complex knot. The shape of the strap-end is datable to the 9th century by analogy with finds from datable contexts and its ornament is a variant of the main decorative style of the period, called after a major group of decorated silver items found at Trewhiddle in Cornwall. The back is plain. Unusually the style of this piece is a variant of the dominant Trewhiddle type, having affinities with contemporary sculpture and manuscript decoration of the Mercian school. | Subjects: | Trewhiddle Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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