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Description: | Copper-alloy one-piece strap-end in the Romanesque style. It is 37mm long with a narrow and deeply split attachment end (19mm deep and max 5mm wide). A single copper-alloy rivet remains in situ at the open end of the strap end. Opposite the open end is a stylised Romanesque animal head, with small triangular ears above big bulging pointed-oval eyes and a rounded, pointed nose. Beneath the nose and sticking out horizontally to left and right are big pointed cheeks, behind which are tendrils which run down the side of the face and curl up again to end in rounded lobes; these could represent whiskers. The head is three-dimensional and 5mm tall, and its style suggests a late 11th- or 12th-century date. The reverse of the strap end is flat, while the top is more rounded.
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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