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Description: | A copper-alloy strap end of Gabor Thomas's type A, which is dated to the 9th century (Geake 2001, 31). It is 35mm in length and 14mm in width and leaf-shaped, with a flaring middle and tapering ends. The attachment end is split and damaged with half of the two parallel rivet holes near to the edge still visible. The animal-head terminal is hard to identify as the terminal is incomplete, due to an old break, and has been bent upwards. The front face is decorated with a longditudinal central groove which cuts a lozenge-shape, which is again formed of four grooves. Either side of the central groove and within the four quadrants of the lozenge-shape there is further decoration in the form of scroll-shaped incisions. The decoration is most badly damaged nearest to the attachment end where the upper surface of the strap end has peeled away. The back face is undecorated. | 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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