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Description: | Cast copper-alloy openwork strap-end. Tongue-shaped, with the butt end recessed for the strap. Two rivet holes and trace of a third on butt end, one corner of which is missing. The relief decoration consists of two backward-turning biting dragons, which are linked by their curving limbs. The lower edge is missing. No facial features are discernible on the dragons. The flat, plain border is decorated with very small circular stamps. The reverse is flat and plain. Red/brown patina. The decoration remains in high relief, but is heavily worn.
L: 43 W: 18.5-22 T: 0.5-4
This strap-end belongs to a group of relief-decorated examples which have been found at Winchester, although none is exactly like this example (Biddle 1990, 497-500 nos. 1056-61 figs. 124-5). | 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: | 900
1066 | 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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