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Description: | Cast copper-alloy strap-end. Early Medieval (c.8th-10th C). Mass: 2.2g; length: 37.1mm; width: 11.8mm; thickness of plate at the centre: 1.5mm. The strap-end has an incomplete split end at the top, a convex-sided plate and a zoomorphic terminal (which is bent slightly backwards). The front of the plate is decorated with a simple design within a border, which are recessed and traces of a white metal inlay, probably silver, remain. The object has a green patina in parts, although this has been lost on much of the strap-end, leaving a dull pitted surface. This is a Thomas Class A strap-end (see Late Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Age Strap Ends 750-1100,Part I, 2003, p.2). Thomas comments that the chronological limits of the class probably lie either side of the 9th century - an 8th century origin has been proposed on more than one occasion and there is mounting evidence for their continued production and circulation well into the 10th century in the north of the country.
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