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Description: | Cast copper alloy strap end length 22mm, width 8.5mm, thickness 4mm, (9mm including rivet) weight 2.99g. Highly stylised animal head terminal, narrowed snout the slightly expands at the tip. The only other detail on the head are large oval convex eyes. The neck is narrowed with a collar separating the head from the main plate. The main plate is plain with two rivet holes at the attachment end, where there is a double notch terminal at the terminal. One the reverse, protruding outwards directly below the head is an integral rivet, this has a circular cross section (2mm diameter) and a rectangular plate at the end (5mm x 3.5mm)9th-10th century
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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