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Description: | A cast-in-one-piece open-work strap-end which has been bent almost in half causing a break in one side piece. It is not clear if the bend is deliberate pre-depositional or is post-depositional. The terminal has a knop in the form of a devolved animal snout very reminiscent of some of the late Saxon material, moving up the body of the strap-end the open-work decoration is in a foliate/curvilinear design, there is a small circular aperture in the centre just above the terminal end (holding the object obverse facing terminal knop down), which may have been an attachment point. At the attachment end the strap-end is finished in two 'scrolls' each of which has the stub of a single integrally cast attachment post. | 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
1300 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rhiannon Harte | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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