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Description: | Medieval strapend; 12th or 13th century cast copper alloy strapend with zoomorphic terminal. Narrow, triangular front plate with no extant decoration. Back plate is now only fragmentary. Single, small rivet stands proud of the back plate in the middle near the wide end of the triangle and there is a circular indentation in the middle near the narrower end, indicating another similar rivet. The terminal knop is long, narrow and shaped as an animal head. There are simple incised marks at the sides, top and end indicating eyes, mouth etc. There is a possible indication of some preserved leather between the plates; Length 29.3mm, width (widest end of plate) 9.4mm, width (animal head terminal) 3.6mm, thickness (inc rivet) 3.9mm, thickness (without rivet) 2.7mm, weight 2.43g. | 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: | 1100
1300 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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