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Description: | A complete copper-alloy strap end of Gabor Thomas's type A, which is Anglo-Saxon and dated to the 9th century. This strap end is rectangular in shape with an animal head terminal end, it measures 30mm in length and 12mm in width. The attachment end is split and has a central iron rivet in situ, which would have held the strap in place. The sides of the strap end are decorated with pairs of opposing notches and there are traces of faint grooves which may have originally run across the front face inbetween each opposing pair. The animal head terminal is thicker than the rest of the strap end, small oval shaped ears and the circular eyes are clearly visible. There are transverse grooves across the snout which again meet up with side notches, similar to those that could be seen on the sides of the rest of the strap end. The back face is flat and 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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