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Description: | A cast copper-alloy leaf-shaped strap end, 14.8mm wide at its widest (just below the attachment) and narrowing in a gentle curve to 4.2mm wide at the terminal. The two corners at the attachment end are rounded, and joined in the middle by a small, slightly projecting tongue. There is a perforation in each of these corners, approximately 2.5mm in diameter, for attachment. Below these the attachment end is decorated with a stamped semi-circle divided into three segments. The strap-end splays apart into two plates at the attachment end to take the strap; the lower plate has broken off. The terminal end is moulded into an animal head with a snout and prominent eyes. Above this there is a moulded design of a raised triangle, apex pointing towards the terminal end, with raised O-shapes on either side; this represents the animal's ears. The central panel of the upper face is engraved with an interlaced zoomorphic design, within a narrow raised border, curving inwards at the attachment end to accomodate the semi-circle, and flat across the terminal end. The underside of the fitting is undecorated. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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