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Description: | An unusual incomplete lead object, which if it was made of copper-alloy would be identified as an Anglo-Saxon Gabor Thomas type A strap end, 900-1100 AD in date. Only the terminal end of the strap end survives and it measures 24mm in surviving length and 18mm in width.
The back face is flat and the front face moulded representing the head of a mouse or bat like animal. It has small rounded ears, brow ridges, circular eyes and a square ended snout with the nostrils depicted by moulded recesses. Above the animal head the strap end flares and has more moulding consisting of border longitudinal ridges and two central parallel longitudinal ridges.
This object could therefore be a lead strap end of the more normally found copper-alloy Thomas type A strap ends, another possiblity is that it was created as a protype for such strap ends or was a practice piece. | 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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