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Description: | A copper-alloy strap end of Gabor Thomas's type A, which is dated to the 9th century (Geake 2001, 31). It is 35mm in length and 14mm in width and leaf-shaped, with a flaring middle and tapering ends. The attachment end is split and damaged with half of the two parallel rivet holes near to the edge still visible. The animal-head terminal is hard to identify as the terminal is incomplete, due to an old break, and has been bent upwards. The front face is decorated with a longditudinal central groove which cuts a lozenge-shape, which is again formed of four grooves. Either side of the central groove and within the four quadrants of the lozenge-shape there is further decoration in the form of scroll-shaped incisions. The decoration is most badly damaged nearest to the attachment end where the upper surface of the strap end has peeled away. The back face is undecorated.
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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