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Description: | A copper-alloy complete strap fitting. This fitting consists of a roughly rectangular shaped bar, measuring 42.2mm in lenght and 9mm in width, with a three dimensional animal head projecting from its front face.
The bar is flat and has stylised fleur de lis shaped terminals with in situ copper-alloy rivets through their centres. The animal projecting from the front face of the bar, and looking along it, is integral to it and measures 24.2mm in length, 11.4mm in height and 7.9mm in width. The animals neck projects from the bar and its head is at right angles to this, with small ears laid back against its head, bulbous eyes, a rounded snout and an open mouth, a long tongue appears to be sticking out of the open mouth and curves upwards at its end. Beneath the head and parallel to the neck there is a circular hole and another smaller one inbetween the underside of the tongue and the lower jaw. These may be purely decorative or possibly had some functional purpose.
This strap fitting is most likely to be medieval in date and the animal seems to be of the romanesque style sometimes seen on medieval swivels. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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