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Description: | A Medieval, copper-alloy, zoomorphic strap-end. It has a cast front plate and a sheet back plate. The strap-end has been broken across the two plates and much of the attachment end has been lost. The remainder of the plates narrow towards the closed end before flaring out slightly into a zoomorphic knop. The head of the animal is outlined on the upper plate only by incised lines creating ears, eyes, nose and mouth. Behind the head, after the narrowed "neck" is a further incised zig-zag decoration on the upper plate, possibly representing scales or hair. There is a single, remaining rivet hole with a copper-alloy rivet in-situ. The head of the rivet has been incised as part of the animal's facial features, suggesting that the strap end was attached to the strap before the incised decoration was applied.
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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