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Description: | Late Anglo-Saxon strap-end, of Thomas?s type A. The strap-end is made from copper alloy but has the remains of silver plating on the front of the object and six silver rivets (probably to attach the plating to the copper alloy). This type is typical of the 9th century and has convex sides tapering to an en-face zoomorphic terminal. At the other end, the strap-end is split and has two small copper alloy rivets for attachment to a strap or belt. Some incised decoration remains on the front of the object but much of the detailed decoration was probably on the silver plating most of which has fallen off (it is possible that the style of decoration was Trewhiddle). At the attachment end, a semi circular incised line encompasses the area around the two rivets, creating a human face shape, within this area (between the rivets) there are three more, slightly curved, lines in a triangular formation. On the central section of the strap-end, where it is widest, there are five of the silver rivets, one in each corner of the central area and one in the centre. Around this central silver rivet there is a small amount of silver plating with some incised linear markings. The zoomorphic terminal end of the strap-end has two sub-circular ears, both containing an upside down semi-circle. The strap-end tapers to a rounded terminal on the tip of which another small section of silver plating and the sixth rivet survives. The animal eyes, which are normally on either side of the strap-end below the ears, cannot be seen and were most likely depicted on the plating. The back of the strap-end is smooth and undecorated but the two copper alloy rivets at the attachment end and the six silver rivets can all be seen. A similar parallel for this strap-end can be seen in Gabor Thomas?s Finds Research Group Datasheet number 32 (entitled Late Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Age strap-ends 750-1100: part 1), Figure 1, number 4. The object weighs 7.32g and measures 44mm in length, 15mm in width and 4mm in thickness (at the split end). | 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: | Anna Marshall | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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