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Description: | MS/LS Animal-head terminal of slender strap-end in very abraded condition. The nostrils & nose are delineated with moulded grooves & the eyes by curls of silver wire set in niello (one eye almost obscured by decay). The ancient break lies close to iron staining on both faces & near it a small projection from one edge probably represents an ear. A very thin layer of metal is missing from the surface of the reverse adjacent to the break. This is not evidence of the split end that would have been at some distance, but must be a lamination. 9th cent. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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