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Description: | Copper-alloy strap-end. The attachment end is split and has two rivet holes, one retaining a copper-alloy rivet. Below is the 'trilobate' or 'fan-shaped' motif, consisting of a raised band curving around each rivet, a raised pelta shape in the centre, and a longer band curving around all below. Most of the strap-end is taken up with a symmetrical abstract design in inlaid niello, now mineralised and silvery. The design consists of triangles and circles and gently curving lines, and runs right up to the edges of the strap-end and down to the animal-head terminal with no borders. The animal-head terminal has long relief ears, but is worn and/or corroded so that other details are now obscure. 44 x 11 mm with the body of the strap-end 2 mm thick. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 800
900 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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