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Description: | Zoomorphic terminal of a silver strap end with gold wire inlay. The strap end terminates in an animal head seen from above. The head on this example is quite realistic and has large bulbous lentoid eyes and protruding nostrils; its pointed ears are set in a circle. As the general proportions of the head are rather squat, the general impression is of a rather tame creature. In a recess on the forehead a length of gold wire forms a triangular shape (pointed and elongated at the lower end) into which a shorter length of gold wire forms a miniature snake, curled up and with its beaked head downwards. The eye is suggested with a depression and consequent slight spreading of the metal in a lentoid shape. The strap end is further embellished by a roundel between the ears, and there is some hatching. The strap end is plain on the reverse, although one of the rivets which would have attached it to a strap partially survives. Stylistically this strap end dates to the 9th century AD. | 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 | Creator: | Andrew Richardson | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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