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Description: | Unusual Carolingian-style copper-alloy strap-slide. It is cast in one piece, in the shape of a rectangular loop with one long side expanded into a decorative rectangular plate measuring 22.5 x 12 mm. This is slightly convex along both axes and has deeply carved decoration. Along the centre is a broad ridge which rises to a curved peak at either end and a third in the middle; between each peak and at either end is a pair of short longitudinal grooves. The decoration to either side is roughly symmetrical; a U-shaped groove (on one side) or cut-out (on the other) in the centre of each long edge, with two grooves forming a T to either side, then L-shaped border grooves at each corner enclosing a series of slightly oblique transverse grooves. The underside of the decorative plate is hollow, and the plate is about 7 mm thick. The rectangular loop beneath brings the thickness of the object to 18 mm. There is a green patina over red-brown corrosion, with areas of bare metal showing through. Compare NMS-80A7D4 and, less close, LVPL-A37788 and HAMP-767FD8. Probably 9th or 10th century. | 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
1000 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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