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Description: | Copper-alloy strap-end. One end is split, and closed by a pair of bright shiny silver rivets. Below this is a 'fan-shaped' panel containing a 'trilobate' motif - a semi-circular sunken area filled with three counter-relief shapes, originally foliate - and then a further sunken panel filled with a counter-relief Trewhiddle-style animal. The animal is not particularly well drawn; its head is in profile at the top, with a large erect ear, dot eye, squared-off nose and a line for a mouth. A substantial body below is interwoven with narrow thread-like interlace, presumably representing the limbs and tail. Parts of this interlace retain short lengths of dark grey inlay, probably mineralised niello (silver sulphide) or possibly metallic silver. At the base of the strap-end is an animal-head terminal, with rounded sunken and counter-relief ears above a lozengiform panel which defines an eye to each side and the nose below. Each eye has an engraved circle but the nose is undecorated. Now bent across the ears, the strap-end was originally c. 39 mm long and a maximum of 9 mm wide; the long edges are only very slightly convex. The bend has caused stress to the metal and some loss of surface, so presumably occurred some time after the manufacture of the strap-end. This type of strap-end dates broadly to the ninth century, a date confirmed by the use of a Trewhiddle-style motif. The use of silver rivets on a copper-alloy strap-end is unusual but not unparalleled. | 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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