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Description: | Copper-alloy strap-end decorated with silver wire scrolls. The split end is shaped into two lobes, each with a small ?copper-alloy rivet. Below the split end, the strap-end tapers to a waist before flaring out again to form an elongated oval. About half of this oval is taken up with two longitudinally set nielloed panels which are inlaid with rather carelessly applied silver wire loops and scrolls. Niello is a silver sulphide, black when first made, but now just starting to mineralise to a slightly silvery colour. The rest of the strap-end consists of a large animal head, with oval ears each with a crescentic sunken area, and a lozenge-shaped brow inlaid with more niello and silver. The niello is more mineralised here, and it is hard to see the details. The corners of the lozenge extend up between the ears and down to form the nose; on either side is an oval eye, and the nose again has a patch of mineralised niello and silver. Anglo-Saxon, 9th century AD. | Subjects: | strap end Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Geake, Helen - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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