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Description: | Copper alloy strap end with a zoomorphic terminal. Double-riveted, flat sided shafts, animal mask terminal, undecorated reverse. Tapering oval shape with attachment end squared off. The attachment end is split and has two holes for rivet attachment (one is broken). The front has an area of incised decoration, crudely scratched on to surface. This comprises a circle segment on each side of the upper face at the attachment end, infilled with cross hatching forming lozenge shapes. Between these two areas is a Y shape outline with the open end toward the rivets, split into squares by lateral lines. The terminal is a cast animal mask - snout, eyes and ears - with an incised crescent behind. The incised lines may have contained niello or other inlay. | 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 | Creator: | Ciorstaidh Hayward Trevarthen | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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