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Description: | Medieval zoomorphic copper alloy strap end, incomplete. The proximal end is in the form a an animal (bear/dog?) head, with snub nose, triangular eyes and small triangular ears, and an open mouth with sheet lower jaw. There are two rivets in the sheet, one to attach it to the head of the obect, the other close to the end, running through the nose, to secure the strap which would have been held within the 'jaws'. Waisted neck, then rectangular body with four in-curved longitudinal lines on the obverse, and two longitudinal lines on the reverse, presumably to represent limbs. The distal end of the strap end is broken off. There are diagonal file marks on the reverse. Length 37.74mm, width 10.46mm, thickness across head 5.8mm, thickness across distal end 2.8mm, max width of strap 1.8mm, weight 5.94g.
The zoomorphic head is reminiscent of the terminals on 14th-16th century vessel drop handles (see Egan 1998 'The Medieval Household', Stationary Office, London, p.175, no.487). | 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: | 1300
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rachel Atherton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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