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Description: | Incomplete copper-alloy strap-end of Thomas's Class G, missing part of its terminal. The attachment end is narrow (5 mm wide) and split and has a single copper-alloy rivet. At the base of the split is a transverse moulding which runs around the sides and front, and below this is a moulded animal head, now rather worn but apparently never very well modelled, with just a groove on the moulding separating the 'ears' and a pointed upturned snout. The jaws grip an 8.5 mm wide openwork plate which perhaps originally took the form of an asymmetric interlaced animal; there are four complete perforations and the plate is broken at two more. Where the animal interlace on this type of strap-end is readable, it is Urnes style, dating them to the 11th century. Overall surviving length 34 mm. Gabor Thomas has seen a scan of this example and comments that the form was introduced into Britain from Eastern Scandinavia, where they have been discovered in Gotlandic graves of 11th-century date. About 10 are known from Britain, including Scandinavian imports (e.g. from Freswick Links, Caithness) and Anglo-Scandinavian copies (such as this one).
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