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Description: | A copper alloy strap end dating from the Early Medieval period. It is 33.4mm long, 10.7mm wide, and 3.2mm thick. It weighs 3.44gm. The strap-end is damaged and much of the split attachment end is missing. It has a convex-sided plate (with edge damage) and a damaged zoomorphic terminal. The main section of the plate is decorated with a Trewhiddle style animal turning back on itself, and there is palmette-derived sub-triangular design at the top. None of the typical niello inlay remains in the recessed designs on the front of the strap-end. The object has a well developed dark brown patina. This is a Thomas Class A, Type 1 Trewhiddle style strap-end (see Late Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Age Strap Ends 750-1100,Part I, 2003, p.2). Thomas (ibid.) comments that the Trewhiddle style is a classic 9th C trait, although the origins and production of class A strap ends may stretch from the 8th to the 10th centuries.
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