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Description: | Cast copper alloy strap end, styli form shape narrowing towards lower end. Two holes through bifurcation. On the face of the bifurcation is a palmette inlaid in niello. Main panel contains the figure of a crouching animal inlaid with enamel, colour now uncertain. Animal looking back over its own shoulder, pricked ear and round eye, body may have been covered with dots. The strap end terminates in a well defined animal head which bears traces of enamel. Back plain. Transverse crack across strap end, much loss of surface.
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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