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Description: | a copper alloy late Anglo-Saxon strap end fragment. It is a rectangular plate and measures 19.65mm in length by 24.76mm in width, and is probably the upper terminal of a tongue-shaped strap-end, Thomas type E. The lower, decorated part is missing, having been broken off in antiquity. There are two circular holes , each c.6,4mm in diameter, near the corners of the terminal, and parts of more open-work patterning is visible just below these, within the broken edge of the object. The strap-end fragment weighs 5.37g. Thomas's group E strap-ends include decoration in the Winchester, and scandinavian art styles. This example, though largely incomplete, most ressembles Thomas's no.24,(Thomas, FRG datasheet 33, no.24) in which the plant-scroll motif has been simplified to an openwork pattern. It is likely to date to the late ninth to eleventh centuries. | 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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