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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Trewhiddle-style strap end, dating to the 9th / 10th century AD (length: 28.5mm; width: 13mm; thickness: 3mm; weight: 3.0g). The bottom half and tip of the artefact are all that remains of this strap end. The incomplete artefact is triangular in plan and mostly flat in section. Immediately below the break at approximately halfway down the artefact, the front of the artefact is decorated with the following pattern heading towards the tip: one central crescent shaped incision, one incised line across the artefact??s width, two rows of three crescent shaped incisions adjacent to each other and another incised line across the artefact??s width. The area between this decoration and the tip is partly missing on the surface. The tip of the strap end is characteristically decorated with the ??plastic?? animal head terminal, which ends in a rounded tip. The eys and possible nose are the only facial features that are visible on this head. The back of the strap end is flat and undecorated. Overall, the artefact is in a worn and corroded condition with a dark green patina. In his 1964 publication ??Anglo-Saxon Ornamental Metalwork 700-1100 in the British Museum??, page 62, D. M. Wilson states that this ??typical?? strap end first occurs in seventh-century pagan Saxon graves, as at Malton Farm, Barrington, Cambridgeshire, but is chiefly found in later Anglo-Saxon contexts and can most usually be dated on art-historical grounds to the ninth century. The more elaborate examples have a terminal in the form of an animal??s head as seen from above. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Johnson, Caroline - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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