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Description: | The strap end has been made from cast copper alloy. In plan it is an elongated triangular shape. The narrow edge, where it divides in profile forming two plates is abraded and probably not the original edge. The length of the strap end is 39.7mm, the width across the plates is 8.2mm and the thickness at the approximate mid point is 3.4mm. It weighs 2.98g.
The upper surface of the strap end has been decorated with a column of two 'x's with four quarters having a low-relief 'pellet'. Twowards the tip the patina is damaged, therefore any other decoration is not visible.
The plates. in profile form a '<' shape, but both plates are incomplete.
The reverse of the strap end is undecorated and flat.
The surface of the strap end has a brown incomplete patina, and iron staining.
The strap end is similar to Thomas's Type B which dates to teh 8th to 11th 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: | 700
1100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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