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Description: | An incomplete strap-end of Thomas's Class E, Type 1, made from copper-alloy, now worn. It is roughly rectangular in shape, wider at one end and with all corners rounded. It measures 37.6mm in length and 25.4mm in width.The front is decorated with a cast relief design in Winchester style. This consists of a central longitudinal stem with tree-like branches projecting from either side of it. Standing on the branches at the tapering terminal end of this mount are what may be birds or lizards; they have long tails and necks, which curve backwards so that their heads are facing each other and their opposing open jaws touching the central longitudinal stem. At the base of the stem there are two more opposing possibly zoomorphic designs, these are U-shaped with rounded terminals but what they are meant to represent is not clear.The back is not decorated but has a slight depression at its wider end. This is probably the remains of the strap attachment, with a rivet hole in either corner having broken away. The object dates to the 10th or 11th centuries.
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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STRAP END
A copper-alloy late Anglo-Saxon strap…
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