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Description: | A strip of bronze about 75mm long, curved, 8mm in breadth and 2mm in thickness, but domed in section, hollowed beneath, and tapering to sharp edges without vertical thickness at the sides. One end is modelled, by casting or carving and filing, into the form of an animal's head seen from above, something in the manner of the Middle Anglo-Saxon strapends. However this head is slightly different. It has a pair of ears, then (below) a lozenge shape, which points down to a zone of 6mm defined by two raised transverse bands. Beyond the lower band, the metal is filed back to a thinness of 1mm. At the opposite end of the strip the metal is also filed or cut flat, so that the domed profile is completely flattened away. This may be part of a bracelet, as the curve of the strip suggests, possibly Early-Mediaeval or Early Mediaeval. Its real function is however uncertain.
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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