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Description: | Apparently almost complete Middle/ Late Early-Medieval (Anglo Saxon : 800-900) zoomorphic strap-end of Thomas' Class A2 (Patterned), measuring 29.42mm in length and weighing 2.01g. It is max.12.55mm wide (at the attachment end) and min.3.67mm wide (at the snout), and max.1.55mm thick (the entire strap end is rather flat and very worn). The very tip of the attachment end is missing, possibly broken across the rivet holes.The narrow end of the strap-end is a pointed, rounded square-ish snout. Two long rectangular ears are just visible behind. The main body of the strap end is divided in two longitudinally with a single groove. To either side two scrolls extend upwards and outwards, their scrolled end curling inwards.Almost the entire surface has worn away apart from the areas of decoration, where the patina has remained in the grooves. The reverse of the strap-end is undecorated.Thomas (2003, p.2) comments that Type 2 strap-ends dominate the cheaper end of the strap-end market, and encompass a range of non-representational curvilinear and geometric patterns. They probably extend a little either side of the 9th century.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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