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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy late Anglo-Saxon strap end, 750-1100 AD in date, of Gabor Thomas Class E (Thomas 2004, 1-4 fig 4). Only the attachment end of this strap end survives, the rest is missing due to an old break now worn. It is rectangular in shape and measures 31.3mm in surviving length and 24.25mm in width. The attachment end is split and has two parallel copper-alloy rivets in situ, one through each corner.
Below the split terminal there is a central recessed rectangular panel which has a roughly cross-shaped possibly foliate motif with a ring and dot motif in its centre, this is reminescent of Thomas Class E, Group 5, which are possibly Carolingian imports and have plant ornament with an emphasis on simplified devices such as stylized acanthus fronds, sometimes enclosed within rectangular fields, as is this 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: | 750
1100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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