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Description: | A copper alloy strap-end of Early Medieval date. It forms a tongue shape, with one oval terminal and the opposite one having a straight edge. The object has front and rear plates, the rear one projecting beyond the front and terminating with a straight edge, now incomplete due to old breaks. Part of a rivet hole can be detected within this broken edge to the right, and may have been matched on the left (now missing). The front plate is decorated with two lines and grooves outlining the object, and the centre is densely covered with decoration in low relief, with a central bar 5.05mm in width running longitudinally, and crossed by two transverse arms, one at the centre, and one forming a border at the upper edge. This border is decorated with three motifs, one upright in the centre flanked by two at right angles, which resemble the letter M. Between the arms of the cross there is further decoration in foliate style, with two rows of paired 'leaves' filling the spaces. The strap-end measures 40.97mm in surviving length and is 23.18mm wide. It is 2.9mm in thickness and weighs 12.7g. An strap-end of similar shape and style of decoration from Wetheringsett, Suffolk, is recorded by West (West 1998, fig.134 no.15), and identified as Carolingian, of tenth century date.Published by Thomas (2012, 499; no. 23)
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