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Description: | An Anglo-Saxon mid-tenth century strap-end fragment.
Fragment of lower end of a silver tongue-shaped strap-end. The piece is cast and has a pierced openwork design, originally symmetrical, with animals and vegetation. The fragment shows part of an animal, probably a bird, pecking at the base of a scroll of foliage. The piece compares well with the strap-end now in Winchester City Museum (see The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art, eds. J. Backhouse, D.H. Turner and L. Webster, (London, 1984), no. 83), which is a fine example of Winchester style on metalwork, with rich inhabited acanthus scroll.
In the tenth century the shape of strap-ends in England changes from narrow, zoomorphic terminals to broader types with rounded ends following Carolingian prototypes.
Metal content: Non-destructive XRF analysis of the object showed the surface silver content to be approximately 97%.
The strap-end is similar to KENT-CB9F44, 2005 T441. | 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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