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Description: | A copper alloy Early Medieval strap end, Class A, Type 2 (Thomas 2003). The strap end has convex sides and a split end. The split end has two lobes and two circular-headed silver rivets are still in situ. The incised decoration is in several sections: a small upper panel in the form of a palmette with side lobes enclosing the rivets and a straight lower edge, a central rectangular panel with zoomorphic design and a stylized animal-head terminal. The sides are bordered with a row of short, incised horizontal lines outside a linear border.
The central panel is split into two sections with a bird in each, the upper facing left and the lower facing right. The terminal appears to have two spiral eyes above a U-shaped border filled with repeated horizontal lines in a curving inverted V shape. The terminal of the strap end forms a straight edge. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Ghey, Eleanor - British Museum | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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