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Description: | Copper alloy tongue-shape strap-end; split attachment end pierced by a pair of iron rivets; front surface has a central longitudinal rib set above the level of the surrounding plate, this protrudes slightly below the bottom edge, both the rib and plate are decorated with longitudinal columns of punched ring-and-dots, while the areas of the plate flanking the rib are decorated with an incised zigzag; the back of the strap-end below the split-end is slightly stepped and has a slight groove in the vicinity of the frontal rib; worn and corroded. A member of a distinctive class of 10th-century strap-end with a pronounced Irish Sea and Danelaw distribution.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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