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Description: | Fragment of Late Saxon copper alloy strap-end, tongue-shaped, very worn purplish metal, lower end only with counter-relief decoration of a vertical central body or stem flanked by two pairs of projecting arched transverse mouldings, possibly representing a bird with open wings. Cf. a broadly similar design on an openwork strap-end from Gunthorpe (HER 24568). 10th-11th 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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