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Description: | Strap endEarly Medieval 9th centuryLength 40mm, width 9mm, thickness 3mmTwo rivet holes and a slot in the attachment end for the strap. From the rivet holes the sides rapidly narrow inwards, from 9mm to 5mm wide, for the first third of the length of the strap end, this has a rectangular cross-section. The remaining two thirds are long and thin with an oval cross-section. There are three sets of double grooved collars on the narrowed section of the artefact and slight remains of an animal facemask on the terminal.The object is made from copper alloy and is very worn. The attachment end is broken with only half of the circumference of the rivet hole remaining, the reverse appears to have been plain. The artefact has a rich brown colour with occasional patches of light green, unfortunately none of the original patina remains.From both excavated and metal detector finds the distribution of this type of artefact show a rather general scattering with particular concentrations in Northern Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and the central South West with a example excavated at Chedder (Rahtz, 1979, 283). Similar although slightly more stylised continental examples have also been found discovered at Birka. These are dated to the 9th 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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