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Description: | An unusual Middle Saxon/Late Saxon strap-slide from a belt or harness, in corroded purplish metal. It has a longitudinal median rib with the remains of three slight rectangular/sub-rectangular bosses, flanked by deep multiple transverse and obliquely-angled notches running onto transverse half-round mouldings at both ends. There is a longitudinal rectangular loop and deep V-shaped hollow on the reverse. It measures 12 x 21mm and the loop is 16 x 10mm internally. The decoration suggests a continental provenance, possibly Carolingian. It may be compared with the notched decoration on a spur and mounts illustrated in Eggenstein et al. Eine Welt in Bewegung 2008, 200, Kat. Nrs. 31.11, 41 and 85.1; another parallel can be found on the PAS database at SF8856. It is likely to date from the 9th or 10th century.
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