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Description: | Copper-alloy strap end with a well developed polished light blue/green patina. The length is 39.7mm and it is 7.7mm at the widest point.Most of the strap is a solid piece, with the exception of the split attachment end which has two rivet holes at the very edge. Both of these rivet holes, on both plates, are damaged and incomplete.The upper surface of the strap end is decorated. The attachment end has a double border groove down each side. Where the plates join together, the upper surface has a transverse ridge above three parallel grooves. The central portion of the strap end which follows is undecorated except for its bevelled sides. This central portion is bordered below by three transverse grooves. Below this, the terminal forms a stylised zoomorphic head represented by an angular elongated faceted quatrefoil.The reverse of the strap end is flat and undecorated. The attachment end is slightly bent in side view.This strap-end is a good example of Thomas's Class B, Type 1. Examples of the type have been excavated from stratified contexts dated to th later 8th to 11th centuries (Thomas 2003, 4). It is commonest in the south and south-east of England.
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