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Description: | Early medieval Anglo Saxon cast copper alloy strap end with zoomorphic terminal, Thomas Class A, 9th century, incomplete. The proximal end of the strap end is broken off, across a rectangular panel with incised linear decoration with traces of niello inlay, and two incised dots. The animal head terminal has curved ears with a sqaured border above, eyes contained within later arcs, and the 'forehead' between the eyes is decorated with incised diagonal lines, mimicking the decoration on the lower half of the rectangular panel. There is damage to to right nostril of the blunted distal terminal. The reverse is undecorated. Grey green patina with some pitting. Length 27.6mm, width 10.10mm, thickness 2.53mm, weight 2.50g. | 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 | Creator: | Rachel Atherton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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