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Description: | Incomplete unusual Middle Saxon strap-end of Thomas's class J, formed from one piece of folded metal, broken across a rivet-hole through the attachment edge, upper part missing. The sides run parallel from the fold before narrowing to a bar with transverse mouldings. A sunken panel on the face is engraved with cross-hatching as keying-in for niello, traces of which remain. 9 x >29mm. Cf. strap-ends of similar type although without niello panels, from Harling HER 6033 (EAA 74, fig.41 no.74), Barton Bendish (HER 17212), Bawsey (HER 25962 context 2070), North Creake (HER 11707), Shropham (HER 17722). 8th or 9th century.
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