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Description: | Late Saxon strap-end, worn and corroded, D-sectioned tongue-shaped, with part of split attachment end (back part missing) pierced by two rivet-holes (one broken). Decorated with three animal-heads cast in high relief, two lying longitudinally jaw-to-jaw and one forming the terminal, all slightly different, with dots for eyes and nostrils and the two facing examples both with an additional dot in centre of the forehead. 10 x 48mm. Stylistically similar finds are known from a number of sites including Postwick (HER 25984), St Faith's Lane, Norwich (HER 373) and Fishergate, York (Rogers 1993) fig.652, no.5320. 9th century.
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