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Description: | An early-medieval cast copper-alloy strap-end, classified as Thomas' (2003, 2) Class A, Type 1 (Trewhiddle style). This would date the artefact to around the 9th century AD. The strap-end is generally flat in profile, but splayed at the split attachment end, the split travelling relatively deeply. The plate is sub-rectangular with convex sides, terminating in an animal head at one end. The split attachment end, very slightly abraded, features the characteristic pair of perforations; both rivets are missing. The plate is unifacially decorated on the upper surface; the reverse is plain. Below the rivet holes is a crescentic incised line, echoed by another by an incurving line above the animal-head terminal. Together with the edges these lines form a border within which lines which mimick these form a field for decoration. The field is divided by a central ridge formed of parallel longitudinal grooves at the ends of which are diverging diagonally incised lines with further diagonals nested within. Within each broadly trapezoidal zone formed to each side of the central ridge is a probable beast, crouching against the border, legs shown in profile, rendered in the Trewhiddle style. The animal-head terminal has ears defined by inverted punched crescents below a transversly incised line which delineates the terminal with central short longitudinal line below. Below are two curved removals in the longitudinal axis with punches within (at the sides); these act as eyes. The strap-end has a dark-grey patina which largely survives over a corroded green metal.
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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