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Description: | Openwork copper-alloy strap-end. The attachment end is not split or stepped, but is the same thickness as the body of the strap-end and has a single central rivet hole which cuts through a pair of transverse grooves, one wider than the other. Between the grooves and the edge, at right angles to both, is some irregular ribbing. Another narrow transverse groove separates the attachment end from the openwork body of the strap-end. This begins with two circles, each of which has an odd rebate or constriction across the edge opposite to the attachment end. Beyond these are two sub-triangular panels; these are formed from a single central bar which forks to make a Y. The forked arms each curve outwards to meet a straight bar which forms the edge to the strap-end. At the junction of these straight edges with the circles, each side has a small projection. The curving forks of the Y are broken just beyond where they meet the sides; the breaks are old. Gabor Thomas has seen a scan of this strap-end, and comments as follows: "The strap-end certainly falls within the stylised Winchester-style series with a central plant stem emitting paired branches/leaves; the knops at the edges of the frame may possibly be abstractions of the birds and animals seen on crisper examples. I classified such strap-ends on the basis of which way the plant stem is portrayed; on some, as in this case, the decoration is in effect upside down, with the stem rising towards the terminal end. The attachment end, with its grooved borders and notched upper edge, can also be paralleled among the Winchester-style series." | 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: | 900
1066 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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