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Description: | Incomplete early medieval strap end of Gabor Thomas type A5 (Thomas, 2003, 4, 5, fig 1, no. 12). Class A strap ends have a split end a tapering plate and a zoomorphic terminal, type 5 is characterised by fields of niello inlaid with silver wire and is likely to be of East Anglian origin.
The attachment end of one face is missing due to an old break and this example measures 38.31mm in length and 17.59mm in width. The back face of the attachment end survives and is shaped with two V-shaped notches, it has two rivet holes through it and the remains of a copper-alloy rivet remains in one. The front face has three panels with niello and fragments of silver wire arranged in circular loops within them. The mouse/bat like animal head terminal has oval-shaped ears which also have niello and silver wire within them as does the lozenge-shaped forehead panel. The eyes are represented by blobs of niello and the snout is short and square ended. | 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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