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Description: | Late Saxon tongue-shaped openwork strap-end with relief-decoration on both faces. The attachment end is recessed on one face for a (missing) bar which was attached by three rivets. One iron rivet survives and the other two holes are incomplete and torn through to the attachment edge. In rather worn condition, less so on the whose end is recessed. Below the bar two birds with backward turning heads touch each other at the neck and share a common terminal to their upturned tails. Four round apertures and a few engraved lines emphasise the moulded birds, but below them little sense can be made of eight more apertures which, along with moulded sides and detail now lost on both faces, probably depicted foliage. Birds and animals set in plant motifs is characteristic of the Winchester style. Thomas 2004 Class E, Type 1. Length 53mm. Width 28mm. Thickness 5mm. Weight 30.03g. 10th century. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bales, Ellen - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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