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Description: | Late Early Medieval debased Winchester style tongue-shaped strap end, incomplete, 10th century. Lower (distal) half only, the proximal end is missing. This would have been a long tongue-shaped strap end, tapering to a point at the distal end. What survives of the body of the strap end has openwork decoration of three pairs of sub-circular piercings with a single circular piercing at the pointed end; the approximate diameters of the paired piercings are, from top to bottom, 5mm, 4mm, 3mm, and the diameter of the single piercing is 3.1mm. The pointed terminal is expanded on both sides, being lozenge-shaped in profile. Raised rim down either edge, each rim having three slightly raised lumps on both obverse and reverse. Surface mainly reddish-brown with some small patches of light green. Length 29.9mm, width 16.5mm, thickness across expanded terminal 4.6mm, thickness across broken proximal end 2.4mm, weight 3.17g. This is a debased form of the inhabited plant scroll decoration of 11th century Winchester strap ends, influenced by Scandinavian designs. See part 2 of Thomas' Find Research Group Datasheet "Late Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age strap-ends" (Datasheet 33) for a discussion of Winchester strap ends. Another incomplete debased Winchester style strap end, this time the proximal half, but not joining to this one, was found in the same field (DENO-D5E038). And another distal half of a debased Winchester style strap end was found a few miles away in the Aston upon Trent area (DENO-393052).
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