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Description: | Copper alloy strap end of Thomas class B1. This strap end is subrectangular in plan, flaring at the attachment end, and tapering to a blunted point at the terminal. It is subrectangular in section. The object is cast as a solid piece, except for at the attachment end, when it divides into two plates with a ?V? shaped profile. Clearly visible are four rivet holes, two to each plate. The tops of the plates are damaged, which has resulted in one of the front rivet holes being incomplete. The rivets are missing. The front of the strap end is decorated with four, parallel transverse grooved lines at the top of the object, and three parallel transverse grooved lines at the bottom. The terminal would have been discernible as a stylised animal head, but any detail has been worn away. The strap end is abraded and the original surface is missing. It now has a bronzey brown patina to front and rear (the object has likely to have been treated since discovery). It is 43.02mm long, 5.7mm wide, 2.24mm thick ad weighs 3.21g. Strap ends of this style date from the eighth century and remained popular into the 11th century. An example is illustrated in The Finds Research Group data sheet 32, number 13. | 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
1100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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