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Description: | Incomplete Middle Saxon/Late Saxon strap-fitting, one end missing, the other split as at the attachment edge of a strap-end and broken across a single central hole or loop. This protrudes from an animal head of the type found at the lower end or outside edge of Thomas (2003) Class A strap-ends, with moulded eyes, triangular field on the brow once inlaid (probably with niello) and huge moulded ears. The main part of the front is taken up with a probably rectangular field partly filled with niello and silver wire, between lines along both sides of tiny oval mouldings with central dots. The inlaid field extends up to the break. Length >29mm. Width 10mm. An intriguing object. What was the form of the missing end? 9th century. | 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
900 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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