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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy strap-end dating from the early medieval period. Mass: 2.8g; length: 34.3mm; width: 12.5mm; thickness of plate at the centre: 1.4mm. The strap-end has an incomplete split end at the top, a convex-sided plate and a zoomorphic terminal. There are two horizontally orientated copper-alloy rivets through both sides of the split-end. The front of the plate is decorated with a geometric design, including a trilobate palmette below the split end and there is an elaborate animals head terminal which is unusual in having three "ears". The strap-end has a smooth dark green patina, although the surface is lighter green in parts. There is a depression on the reverse of the plate behind the zoomorphic terminal, which is consequently raised on the front of the plate. This is a Thomas Class A strap end (see Late Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Age Strap Ends 750-1100,Part I, 2003, p.2). Thomas comments that the chronological limits of the class probably lie either side of the 9th century - an 8th century origin has been proposed on more than one occasion and there is mounting evidence for their continued production and circulation well into the 10th century in the north of the country.
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