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Description: | Cast copper alloy early medieval strap end. Tongue shaped in outline with a flattened and expanded terminal, a central section D shaped in profile and an expanded flattened attachment end. The attachment end is split to hold the end of the strap and has the broken remains of two rivet holes; one still containing part of a copper alloy rivet.
It is 47.8mm long, 10.8mm wide and 3.2mm thick and weighs 4.4 grams.
There are faint outlines of nostrils and eyes on the terminal suggesting this is Thomas's zoomorphic type F daining from 800-975 AD. A very similar strap end is recorded as No. 35.9 on page 209 of MacGregor and Bolick (1993). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Burnett, Laura - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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