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Description: | Silver strap end with long narrow plate split at the top with two attachment holes, while the opposite end is cast as a flat animal mask with large rounded ears. The main field carries one animal in profile, much elongated with the head curved back and biting the etiolated body. The hindquarters end in a regular leg but the forequarters are obscure and part of the field is filled with a large pointed leaf. Worn or heavily cleaned, it may originally have been inlaid with niello. Back plain, several small patches of green copper-alloy corrosion. The style of the animal is typical of 9th century Anglo-Saxon fine metalwork, known as Trewiddle, after a coin-dated hoard in the style from Trewiddle in Cornwall, Used for fine straps or braids and a relatively common dress element in this period. Approximately 93% silver by X-ray flourescence analysis. | Subjects: | Strap end Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Worrell, Sally - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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