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Description: | A complete copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon strap end of Gabor Thomas's type A in very good condition. Measuring 37.9mm in length and 13.6mm in width it is roughly rectangular in shape with tapering terminals. The attachment end is split and worn one of the original two parallel in situ iron rivets survive.
The front face of this strap end is decorated with incised decoration consisting of a small semi-circular panel directly below the attachment end, a rectangular panel below this and a zoomorphic terminal. Within the rectangular panel there is a complex interlaced design, which may depict an animal or possibly a standing bird of some kind. The animal head terminal is mouse or bat like in character. With small rounded ears, a brow with decorative triangular grooves across it, circular indented eyes and a square snout, now worn.
Type A strap ends are dated from the late 8th century to 1000, this example is extremely similar in its decorative design to another type A strap end from Ixworth, Suffolk (SF-BC8C67). | 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
1000 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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