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Description: | Cast copper-alloy strap-end. Double-riveted, convex-sided with zoomorphic terminal with the nostrils and eyes defined by curving incised lines. The flat central panel has a convex-sided incised linear border which contains a stylised backward-biting Trewiddle-style animal. The animal has a gaping jaw and a contorted body formed of single-strand ribbon interlace. It has pointed ears, a prominent pointed snout with three short incised lines to imitate fur and the tongue and tail is interlaced around the body. The jaws are holding a single-stranded interlacing ribbon, which fills the rest of the panel. This design is set against a background of niello, traces of which remain in the recessed areas. The top is split to hold a strap. Both rivets are missing and one of the holes is broken which resulted in a repair in antiquity when a piece of sheet copper-alloy was added to the reverse and secured with two copper-alloy rivets; one of which was intentionally placed to represent the animal's eye. A further hole was later added beneath one of the original rivets. L: 36.5 Max W: 13.5 T: 1. The design on this example is a comparatively crudely executed and simplified version of other Trewiddle-style strap-ends and is very similar to an unprovenanced example now in the British Museum (Webster 1991, 233 no. 191). This example is published by Sally Worrell in Hampshire Studies 2002. | 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: | 850
900 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Sally Worrell | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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