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Description: | Early Medieval copper-alloy strap end with zoomorphic terminal, Type A, late 8th century to 1000. This strap end is made from a single sheet of metal which has been folded widthways. It is sub-oval in plan but tapers towards the terminal. The terminal flares out slightly around where the ears of the animal head are likely to have been, it then tapers again before flaring out where the eyes would have been and then finally tapers to a rounded point at the nose of the animal. A total of six rivet holes are visible, three to either side, along the ??open?? end of the strap end. The copper-alloy part of the strap end is undecorated, but the front of the object has been overlaid with silver plate, of which only about a third has survived at the ??open?? end. This silver plate has been decorated with incised lines. It measures 49.68mm long, 13.1mm wide and is 2.18mm thick. Similar Early Medieval strap ends can be found in Mills, N. 2001. Saxon and Viking Artefacts, pages 22-27. | Subjects: | Type A | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Pooley, Laura - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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