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Description: | A Middle/ Late Early-Medieval (Anglo Saxon : 800-900) zoomorphic strap-end of Thomas' Class A2 (Patterned), a little bent and measuring 35.36mm in length and weighing 5.35g. It is max.12.01mm wide (at the centre) and min.6.33mm wide (at the snout), and max.3.71mm thick (at the open end).The narrow end of the strap-end is a worn, slightly rounded, square-ended snout 2.13mm thick, with a 2.45mm wide horizontal rib behind which are triangular hollowings for the eyes. Behind these is a U-shaped brow ridge and beyond two ears with a triangular area between.Behind the head the central area is filled with two double lines of grooves, with tiny transverse grooves between to create little squares. The two lines are in the shape of a C and backwards-C, joined at their central stems to give an X shape with a long central join. This gives four quarters, the two smaller of which are triangular in shape with a possibly triangular groove at each base. The wider two quarters have a zoomorphic feature, possibly a limb with three toes.Beyond the central area is the open or split end, 10.23mm wide. It is bent a little backwards. The open-end is decorated with a U-shaped rib flanked by a groove from which an inverted V extends. To either side of this are two rivet holes. 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. Cf. in particular with WILT-1189E5 which has very similar decoration, from a neighbouring parish.
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