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Description: | A Late Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy strap end of Thomas's Class E, Type 1, decorated in Winchester style. The strap end has a symmetrical openwork design with fleshy foliage branching from a central spine. The strap end tapers to the terminal, terminating with a large blob of foliage consisting of a central rounded element and five surrounding similar elements. The attachment end (which is missing) would once have had two rivet holes within the openwork design to allow the strap end to be attached to the strap. Just down from where these rivets should be is an animal head with prominent ears. This mixture of foliage with zoomorphic imagery is a common feature of this type of strap end. The reverse is undecorated. The strap end is worn; the breaks (where the rivets once would have been) are also well worn and the metal has gone very thin on the upper edge. The metal has been coated with a lacquer, so it has a mid reddish-brown patina, with traces of the copper alloy metal showing through. Winchester Style is a tenth-century Anglo-Saxon art style which can be found on metalwork and manuscript art. Parallels for this piece can be seen in Biddle (1990) and Thomas (2003). | Subjects: | Type 1 Class E Winchester Style | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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