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Description: | Strap-end. The main body of the strap-end is D-shaped in section; the top is flattened and split, with a single iron rivet. The flat area is decorated with four rather wiggly vertical rows of tiny punchmarks. The rest of the strap-end has decoration derived from animal heads, but now stylised to the point where it appears merely as a series of transverse grooves and mouldings. The topmost moulding is large and flat-topped, and decorated with two eccentrically placed dots which may be intended to represent eyes. A little way down the strap-end are three transverse grooves and then another moulding, this time with a nick down its centre. By analogy with other buckle-plates and strap-ends of this type, these grooves and mouldings may be a stylised version of a pair of nose-to-nose animal heads. Beyond the lower moulding is the terminal, which is more naturalistically animal-head shaped, with dot eyes with a vertical nick between. The nose is separated by a final transverse groove. There are edge nicks all the way down the strap-end, on both flat and D-section parts. Length 53 mm. Excavated parallels are known from Fishergate and Coppergate in York, and from St Faith's Lane in Norwich. Metal-detected parallels come from Gisleham in Suffolk and Whissonsett in Norfolk. They are currently thought to be ninth century AD, and perhaps a Viking type.
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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