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Description: | Late Saxon Gilt copper alloy Winchester-style strap-end, rather short tongue-shaped, worn and corroded purplish metal with recessed attachment end broken across remains of three rivet holes, counter-relief zig-zag and horizontal rib with twin engraved lines on face pierced by a secondary copper alloy rivet (of darker metal) above two counter-relief naturalistic pendent cinquefoils on front and back, 19 x 37mm. Thomas's Class E, Type 1. 10th-11th century.Referenced in Kershaw (2008, 259, 261)
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