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Description: | A long, fairly plain two-piece sheet-metal copper-alloy strap end. It tapers from 15.5mm at the trailing edge to 11mm near the tip. The original length was approx. 65mm, now reduced to 56.5mm owing to folding in the soil. The sheets separate over the trailing 25mm, and are conjoined from that point to the tip. At the trailing edge are two rivets for fastening to the strap, which set the two leaves apart at outer measurement of 4mm. Each leaf is c.0.7mm thick, their combined thickness c.1.5mm. At the tip the outline slopes in abruptly to a central nipple c.3mm across and 2mm long. Both upper and lower surfaces bore a high polish, and there are four plain and somewhat irregular bars indented or hammered into the upper surface in two pairs, with a semicircular notch into either edge of the strapend between the two pairs. The rudimentary decoration is paralleled on the example illustrated by Egan and Pritchard p 131 item 605, although that has a more developed finial.
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