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Description: | An incomplete and worn cast copper-alloy Early-Medieval strap end of Thomas Class A. It is missing the attachment end due to old breaks, is bent at an angle of 90 degrees due to post-depositional damage, and is missing large areas of both faces due to corrosion and wear. It is sub-oval in form with worn convex sides that taper to a decorative zoomorphic terminal. The terminal has a pointed snout with incised, stylised eyes. Above the eyes are oval shaped ears that have crescentic incisions and preserves an added white metal coating visible on the front and back faces. The areas of white metal on the back face of the ears are worn in such a way as to resemble two flattened circular rivets, although this appears to be the result of the preservation of the object rather than the presence of rivets themselves. Above the terminal the front face of the object has the remains of incised/chip carved decoration that may once have had an added white metal coating or inlaid niello. The precise form of this decoration remains uncertain due to the poor preservation of the object and it may either be zoomorphic in the Trewhiddle style or perhaps patterned or anthropomorphic in nature. At the top the strap end terminates in old breaks below the attachment end. The back face is equally worn with most of the original surfaces now missing. The entire object measures 29.50mm in length (bent), 10.93mm in width, 2.81mm in thickness (at terminal), and weighs 2.63g.This strap end falls into Thomas' Class A Anglo-Saxon strap ends and may be further defined as Types 1-3, the precise type now uncertain due to the preservation of the object (see Thomas, 2003: pp. 2, fig. 1). This indicates a probable date range in the 9th century AD for the current example.
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