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Description: | Copper-alloy strap-fitting with two bars for the attachment of straps. The object is roughly rectangular, and in the centre is an animal head in relief with three raised ovals or petals projecting in a sunburst fashion behind to either side. This decoration leaves a triangular void above and below, closed by the two strap bars, for the strap to pass through. The strap bars are narrowed and recessed, and are circular in cross-section. In the middle of the reverse of the object, exactly where the animal head would be on the obverse, is a circular depression. The projecting animal head has large circular ears, prominent pellet eyes, and a shovel-shaped snout. The style of head is very similar to those found on the stirrup-strap mounts of Williams's Class B Type 1 Groups 1 and 2, and Type 3 Group 1, all of which have a distribution weighted to the northern parts of Lincolnshire. A similar strap-fitting has been found in Wiltshire (WILT-266B84). This also has the central depression on the reverse and the two strap bars, although they are very much narrower, only 3.8 mm in length. They could also be termed strap-unions or strap-junctions, and appear to date from the eleventh or twelfth centuries. | 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: | 1000
1200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Adam Daubney | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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