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Description: | Early Medieval Viking period Anglo-Scandinavian cast copper alloy zoomorphic strap end. Attachment end bifurcated, forming short (length 14mm) rectangular undecorated plates, with a single copper alloy rivet for attachment to the strap towards the attachment end; the rivets have flat, but not flush, heads. Borre or Urnes style moulded zoomorphic animal head terminal is the same on both faces, with small rounded ears extending onto the plates, hemispherical eyes, V-shaped snout, flared cheeks and a large circular plate projecting from the mouth, presumably the tongue. Mid green patina. Length 33.0mm, width across attachment end 8.9mm, width across tongue 12.4mm, thickness 7.3mm, weight 9.81g.Not included in Gabor Thomas's classification (FRG datasheets 32 & 33).Just one parallel identified - PAS database NLM-E7A252, from North Lincolnshire, incomplete but with the same distinctive terminal and bifurcated plate.
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