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Description: | A copper alloy Middle/ Late Early-Medieval (800-1000) Class A type 2 (A2; Patterned) strap-end, missing its two rivets. It measures 45.80x14.82x2.94mm and weighs 5.15g.The strap-end has a split end, convex sides and a zoomorphic terminal. The zoomorphic terminal is at the narrowest end which has a rounded point snout (4.31x1.24mm) with two D-shaped raised areas at the edges, the centre of which has a 1mm diameter punch for the eyes. Directly behind, also flanking the sides, is another D-shaped raised area with a crescentic groove below a slightly larger punched circle, 1.6mm in diameter. These represent ears. A faint incised line separates this area (the head) from the panel above.The panel behind the head comprises the largest area of the strap-end. At the centre (14.82x1.56mm) is an incised circle 11.78mm in diameter, within which is a flower of seven incised petals around a central incised circle 1.85mm in diameter. Above and below are two back-to-back incised crescents, terminating (at the end closest to the centre) with a triangle. Inside each crescent is a curlicue, curling outwards.The open split end measures 8.69x2.94mm. In each corner is a rivet hole, c.1.5mm in diameter. To the reverse (which is undecorated) the rivet hole is worn through at one corner.The patina is smooth and green in colour.Thomas (2003, p.2) comments that Type 2 strap-ends dominate the cheaper end of the strap-end market, and encompass a range of non-representational curvilinear and geometric patterns. They probably extend a little either side of the 9th 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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