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Description: | The rounded end of an openwork cast bronze strap-end of late Anglo-Saxon or Viking-Age type. The casting is distinguished by a group of circular piercings of the metal arranged in approximately symmetrical arrangements. Although the object is not extremely worn, it is difficult to make out the details of the design, as if they had not been very carefully cast. Like some of the stirrup-mounts, which are of similar date and production, it appears that this is a degenerate version of a more detailed and sophisticated type, similar though not necessarily identical to that illustrated by Biddle, Winchester Object and Economy, nos 1056 and 1057, figs 125 and 124 (pp498-9). It more nearly resembles 1056 because front and back are similarly decorated and the metal around each hole or piercing is chamfered on both sides, showing that the object was to be viewed or seen from both sides. The end with the three attachment rivets has been broken off this example. See also SF-BF2015 for a round-ended strapend of similar period (but different production) from the same findspot.
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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