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Description: | Part of a Late Saxon openwork relief-decorated tongue-shaped strap-end of Thomas (2004) Class E. The attachment edge is rebated on the front face to take a separate sheet strap retention bar, which is secured by two copper alloy rivets and decorated with two rows of tiny punched perforations. The asymmetrical relief decoration, present on the front face only, shows foliage inhabited by (part of) a stylised bird within a frame of short transverse grooves on the sides and of oblique grooves in a cable pattern across the edge. The flat reverse carries randomly applied punched ring-and-dots. The metal is a typical dull purplish colour typical of Late Saxon metalworking, while the sheet bar is dark green. A very close parallel can be seen in a strap-end from Rocklands (HER 34948; NCM acc. no. 1996.137). That example, lacking its attachment edge, but otherwise more complete, shows two birds whose head are close to the same side (the left-hand with attachment edge uppermost). 10th century. Length >33mm. Width 17.5mm. Thickness 3mm.
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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