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Description: | a copper alloy Anglo-Saxon strap end. It is a Thomas class A type 5 example, being rectangular with an animal head terminal. It is 44mm in length and 11.75mm in width, tapering to 4.45mm at the animal head snout. It weighs 5.15g. There are empty panels on the eye sockets, forehead and ears of the animal head, which would have held niello and silver wire. Above the ears are two parallel longitudinal panels, 15.85mm in length and about 3mm in width, also now empty of inlay. This shape and layout for the inlays is characteristic of type 5 strap ends.The terminal above these panels finishes in two half-circles, pierced with two rivet holes. The split end is missing from the underside of the strap end, and is broken off at 9.35mm from the terminal. Thomas notes that the majority of finds of strap ends of this type have been made in Norfolk and Suffolk. | Subjects: | Class A | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Carr, Jane - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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