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Description: | Late Saxon copper alloy incomplete (at least 36 x 14mm) strap-end, very worn tapering tongue-shaped, pierced by at least two rivet-holes (broken across upper hole) at attachment end, remains of lozengiform decoration on flattened upper part and ?double animal-head motif at terminal. Stylistically similar finds are known from a number of sites including Postwick (HER 25984), St Faith?s Lane, Norwich (forthcoming) and Fishergate, York (Rogers 1993) fig.652, no.5320. Probably 10th century, although some examples have been published as 9th century, e.g. the York example . | 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: | 900
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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