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Description: | Copper alloyStrap End. Cast zoomorphic strap end with a tapered beast snout terminal with eyes represented by incised lines defining triangular fields. Behind these are incised curvilinear and lunate features, and beyond this an expanded rectangular field is filled with interlace, limited along its sides by a billeted border. The plate was bifurcated beyond its widest point, where the undecorated end of the back is lost. A spur of metal projecting from the upper plate may have extended between stitching holes, though these too are lost. The interlace decoration bears intermittent brown patination or encrustation. This object resembles numerous strap ends from the high status site at Flixborough, which is a few miles south-west of West Halton and lies in an analogous riverside situation. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 750-850.Length: 45.5mm, Width: 13.9mm, Thickness (at snout): 3.5mm, Weight: 6.66gms.
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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