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Description: | A complete cast copper-alloy strap end. This strap end is roughly triangular, 55mm in length and 23mm in width at its attachment end i.e, the widest point. This strap end is 3mm thick and fairly crudely made. The strap end has a central trapezoidal hole cut through it. Around this there is a border groove.
At the attachment edge there are two circular rivet holes. One has the remains of corroded iron within it, so presumably iron rivets were used. The terminal of this strap end takes the shape of a forward-facing animal's head, with pointed oval ears, large oval eyes and a large rounded snout; it rather resembles a wolf. The front of the terminal is rounded. The reverse of the strap end is flat and undecorated.
This strap end is peculiar. Anglo-Saxon strap ends of Gabor Thomas's type A have similar animal head terminals, but this example is unlikely to actually be Anglo-Saxon in date as it is too chunky, too thick and perhaps too crudely made. It is therefore more likely to be a later copy, perhaps made very recently for a re-enactor. | 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: | 1980
2003 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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