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Description: | Fragment of large relief-decorated strap-end made of lead. There is a slanting break about halfway down the strap-end, and the attachment end is missing leaving just some ?tapering sides and the rounded end. The surviving fragment is flat on the reverse and decorated on the front; around the edge is a border of half-pellets, and within is a curvilinear, possibly Urnes-style, motif. This is unclear, but when viewed with the rounded end uppermost appears to consist of a bird with head turned back slightly at the centre of the rounded end, standing within a coil of tendrilly plant stem, and biting at it with its beak. The bird appears to have a leg and maybe a wing, but the wing continues the spiral line of the stem and may instead be the end of the plant. The plant at one point flares out into a leaf or flower. The Urnes style is a Scandinavian art style dating to the 11th century. The strap-end is 32 mm wide at the break, but would originally have been even wider; the surviving length is also 32 mm. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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