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Description: | Middle/Late Saxon one-piece strap-end consisting of a trapezoidal split socket with one rivet hole containing an iron rivet and a D-sectioned shaft leading to a globular terminal. Most of reverse part of the split end is missing. Length 34mm. Width 9mm. Similar objects with solid terminals but without the length of solid shaft have been recorded from Brampton, Burgh Castle, Old Catton, Stow Bardolph and Burgh and Tuttington. Neither Thomas (2003) nor Hinton (1996) includes any comparable objects. However, the integral split for the strap suggests a late Roman or Middle/Late Saxon date, and the most likely period of manufacture and use is in the 8th and 9th centuries. The dull purplish metal is characteristically Late Saxon. A number of broadly comparable objects have been recorded by the PAS, and given a variety of date ranges: Isleham, Suffolk (SF-7003F7) AD 1400-1540); Freckenham, Suffolk (SF9057) undated; Folkingham, Lincolnshire (LIN-019967) AD 1066-1499; Lenton Keisby and Osgody, Lincs (LIN-153C04) AD 1250-1499; Keelby, Lincs (LIN-3606A4) AD 43-1499; South Ormsby cum Ketsby, Lincs (LIN-CD28E6) AD 43-1500; Little Steeping, Lincs (LIN-019967) AD 1300-1400; Styrrup with Oldcotes, Nottinghamshire (SWYOR-1D5F98) AD 43-1800; Doncaster, Yorkshire (LVPL-560210) AD 1100-1300; Stonegrave, Yorkshire (YORYM-453EA1) AD 1200-1500). A strap-end from Upton Scudamore, Wiltshire, that resembles the above but terminates in a Romanesque animal head, was dated to the second half of the 11th or the 12th century (WILT-8F33A4). The bulbous element of all of these is solid, in contrast to hollow-headed examples from Congham and Thetford, Norfolk (Goodall, A.R. in Rogerson and Dallas EAA 22, fig. 112 no. 52).
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