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Description: | An Anglo-Saxon strap end, Thomas type B.
The strap end is made of one piece of cast copper-alloy. This strap end dates to the 8th ? 11th century. The strap end has a wide attachment end, which is undecorated on the surface but has serrated edges and an incised border. Two rivet holes have been drilled into the open end, both rivets are missing. The strap end then tapers to a collar. Below the collar the strap end then gets thinner, with a rectangular section and terminates with a zoomorphic head. The head is highly stylised.
The reverse of the strap end is flat and undecorated. The metal is mid greyish-green in colour. | 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
1066 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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