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Description: | Round-ended strapend of tenth-century, Anglo-Viking type. The closely-woven interlace, crowded into the field around a central column of successive cones representing a plant-stem, shows a provincial response to the more delicately-arranged acanthus foliage of Wessex during the tenth century. The cone and interlace resolution occurs elsewhere, for instance in sculpture at Littleton Drew (Glos) on a cross shaft in the church porch there. The cramped ornament on this strapend bears some relation in layout to the tenth-century 'ring'knot' ornament found in Manx and other Anglo-Norse contexts in sculpture, though the foliate form is a separate motif. See also find SF-BF1341 for another strapend of related date from the same findspot. | 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
1100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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