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Description: | An Anglo-Saxon silver strap-end of Thomas's Class B. It has a tapering shaft with a zoomorphic terminal in the form of an animal head; this has a long nose, small pits for eyes, and long curled ears which end in a projecting rounded lug to either side. The shaft tapers from a wedge-shaped split end, one side of which is now missing; the attachment holes have also been broken away. There is a drilled hole in the centre of the terminal which appears to cut through the decoration. The strap-end is in poor condition and has no surviving decoration beyond the terminal, although it is possible that there was originally decoration on the missing attachment end (compare Thomas 2003, fig. 2, no. 14). The reverse of the strap-end is also undecorated. Thomas suggests that these strap-ends date broadly to the 9th century ADThe strap-end is 41.9mm long, 8.8mm wide, 4.3mm thick and weighs 3.49 grams.
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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