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Description: | Copper-alloy strap end of early medieval date. The strap end is 32 mm in length and 10 mm wide. It gradually tapers to 5 mm wide at its terminal. The terminal is decorated in zoomorphic style with a stylised quadruped. Above the quadruped is a rectangular cell which may have been treated with a decorative finish, although if so no such finish remains. The strap end would originally have had a split attachment end where the strap would have slotted in. However, one of the sheets of metal that formed the split has broken off. The remaining part of the attachment end has two adjacent holes for securing the object to the strap. The reverse of the strap end is undecorated. The strap end is of Thomas' A type and dates from the late 8th to the llth century.
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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