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Description: | A copper alloy incomplete Early Medieval strap-end. It is a tongue-shaped strap-end and is an example of Thomas' Class E, type 2, Anthropomorphic strap-ends. Its lower edge terminates with three protruding knops, and the body of the object has openwork decoration, with perforations arranged in mirror-image. The lower ones are the shape of two conjoined circles and are flanked by two smaller circles above and close to the curved edges of the object. Between and above the apertures there is raised decoration suggesting the torso and head of a figure with arms upraised and hands/foliage spread to left and right. A band above the figure is recessed and undecorated. Within its broken edge the outlines of rivet holes can just be determined. The reverse of the strap-end is undecorated. The figure motif with arms upraised has been noted from other strap-ends from East Anglia (see Thomas). The openwork style and quality of metalwork are similar to stirrup strap mounts of the eleventh century. The object measures 25.36mm in length, 19.9mm in width, 2.89mm in thickness and weighs 6.23g.
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