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Description: | Strapend, 27mm long, 9mm wide, 3mm wide. The artefact is tongue shaped in that it has a flat attachment end, the side are straight and gently narrow (from 9mm wide to 6mm wide) to the rounded terminal. From the terminal and running for three quarters of the length of the strapend are two central ridges 19mm long, each is 1mm wide. Surrounding the ridges and covering the top of the artefacts are ring and dot decoration that has been drilled into the surface. There is a single rivet hole in the centre or the attachment end with a copper alloy rivet still in place. On the underside there is a plate 10mm long at the attachment end, the forward edge has been soldered to the base of the strapend and the attachment end has been opened to create a slot for the strap. The artefact is copper alloy and has been silvered. It is in a generally poor condition where the silvering has survived it has helped to protect the surface of the object, the side and the top of the central ridges are heavily corroded resulting is a loss of the original surface, the ring and dot decoration has bronze disease within.
The best parallels for this piece are tenth century tongue shaped strapends, this also resembles strapends that are found in the North Lincolnshire area that are decorated with ring-dots and ribs central ribs which run down their length, as well as other examples being found around the Irish Sea (Kevin Leahy), which means that this style may be of a Hiberno-Scandinavian origin. Similar examples are found in Macgregor & Bolick's, 1993, pages 208-10. | 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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