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Description: | Gabor Thomas Type A strap end of Middle Saxon or tenth-century date. This is one of four variant examples reported from the same site. This example, which is neatly made and finished to a high polish, is now rather corroded. It measures 37mm length and nearly 14mm at the broad end, but tapers on a slightly bowed line to a breadth of only 3mm at the snout. The animal head terminal occupies 15mm of the length, the head itself being quite tiny and pointed, around a Y-ridge of the snout, with the eyes set as slight bumps to either side in the thickness of the mount, and then the great circular ears, divided only by a narrow V-shaped panel, extending back through a zone of 7mm. Above this is a panel of engraved lines, seemingly making a geometric or foliate pattern, and at one point having a slight residue suggesting that these grooves were inlaid with silver wire. Unfortunately most of this surface is obscured by corrosion. The broader end is split into two tongues or leaves over a distance of 7mm. The outline at the top is made into two lobes (carrying the two rivets) with a central sharp tip or spur between them. | 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: | 750
950 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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