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Description: | Incomplete 9th century Anglo-Saxon, copper alloy strap end of Thomas class A type 2. This strap end is subrectangular in plan and tapers to a stylised animal-head terminal. It is subrectangular in section. It is 45.44mm long, 10.54mm wide, 2.66mm thick and weighs 6.11g. The strap end is cast as a solid object, except for at the attachment end where the upper part of the object would have divided into two plates with a ?v? shape profile. One of these plates survives intact, the other is now entirely missing. Break edges are worn smooth suggesting this damage occurred in antiquity. The attachment end is also worn and damaged and now appears pointed. It appears that there may have been only one rivet hole, but the wear makes this impossible to discern.
The object is worn and only a small portion of the original surface survives with a mid green patina. This surviving portion is to the front of the strap end and is decorated with an incised curvilinear design of tow parallel columns of spirals. No trace of niello, gilding or silvering survives and shiny patches on the surface appear to be traces of shiny bronze. Otherwise the object is abraded and exposed surfaces are brown with patches of bright green corrosion. The terminal of the strap end is zoomorphic, with two eyes and a long snout but is too worn to discern any detail. Examples of class A strap ends are illustrated in the Finds Research Group Data sheet 32. Here Thomas notes that type 2 strap ends dominate the ?cheaper end? of the strap end market and encompass a range of curvilinear and geometric designs often in combination with the animal-head terminal. | 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: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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