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Description: | Cast copper alloy strap end, early-mid Early Medieval. The proximal end is bifurcated to take the strap, and rounded with a small projection at either side (damaged on one side), and one attachment hole. The strap end tapers towards the middle where there are five narrow moulded ridges running around the object. The strap end then expands and becomes flattened until the rounded distal terminal, which is bent upwards.There are two punched dots on either side of the obverse of this terminal, which may represent the eyes of an animal - this may be a debased zoo-morphic head. Fine dark green patina. Length 46.55mm, width of bifurcated end 7.78mm, width at central moulding 3.95mm, width across distal terminal 6.64mm, thickness of bifucated end 2.86mm, thickness of central moulding 3.25mm, thickness of distal terminal 1.14mm, maximum thickness of strap 2.0mm, weight 2.82g. A very similar strap end is published in MacGregor and Bollick (1993) "Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections", Oxford, BAR 230, page 209, no.35.9, from an excavation at Shakeoak in Oxfordshire (Roman and early Saxon deposits, up to early 8th 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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