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Description: | A cast Anglo-Saxon silver strap-end, complete but bent, quite worn and corroded at its terminal. The strap-end terminal is in the shape round-eared animal with a square, tapering muzzle, subdivided into fields by intersecting lines. Within a beaded border, the central field has a Trewhiddle-style geometrical decoration of stylised vegetation motifs reserved against a background of niello. Much of the original niello survives to give a vivid impression of the original appearance and aesthetics. The split end has two rivets still in place and a schematic half-moon-shaped palmette. The rounded ears are typical of the south of England. For similar strap-ends with zoomorphic Trewhiddle-style decoration, dating to the 9th century, see L Webster and J Backhouse (eds.) The Making of England, London 1991, nos. 191-94
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