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Description: | Terminal from a copper-alloy strap-end, in the form of a small crowned head. Although fairly flat, the head is modelled in the round. The crown has three lobes, with a V-shaped groove on either side at the base of the central lobe. The face has engraved triangular eyes, a slight transverse moulding forming high cheekbones, and a slight longitudinal moulding forming the nose. Below the nose is a larger triangle of grooves forming the mouth and the creases from nose to mouth. At the bottom of the head is a large moulding or collar that runs right round the object, and below this is a narrowed neck. Below the neck the object widens out again to form the body of the strap-end. The upper surface is very slightly convex and undecorated, and there is a central circular attachment hole. The reverse is much rougher and has a step or rebate cut into it between the neck and the rivet to reduce the thickness. From parallels (e.g. Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 614 and fig. 86) the rebate would have held a strap and the rivet hole would have fixed a sheet backplate in place.
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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