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Description: | Early Medieval cast copper-alloy 'Winchester style' tongue shaped strap-end. Openwork decoration depicting a simplified tree of life, with a central trunk and two pairs of side branches within a tongue shaped frame. The trunk terminates in a lozenge shaped element with border of punched dots and a central circular rivet hole. The branches and trunk are incised with lines and possibly have further punch decoration obscured by corrosion. The 'tree' rests on a kidney-shaped, flat element at the attachment end with an incised outer border and a pair of rivet holes, one still containing part of a copper alloy rivet. The top of this section is broken with an old break. The front is slightly convex and the back flat. There are traces of gilding on the front. 41.3mm long, 18.4mm wide and 2.4mm thick, it weighs 4.14 grams. Gabor Class E Type 1 similar to HAMP3566 and Thomas (2004) Fig 4 No. 24. This type dates to the late 9th to 11th centurys and is centred on Sourthern and South east England (ibid p.1-3).
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