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Description: | Late Early Medieval copper alloy Winchester style strap end, 22mm long, 19mm wide and 3mm thick. The object is in a fair condition and weighs 6.82grams. It is in a fragmentary condition with only the upper portion remaining. It consists of a flat rectangular plate with a central void to take the strap. This is held with four copper alloy rivets, one in each corner, and on one side is decorated with four incised dot in circle motifs. The other side has three of these motifs visible, the lower two overlap a raised ridge which runs horizontally above an incised depression. Below this the object takes on an undulating, wavy form when viewed from the side. What decoration is left consists of four circular voids (two incomplete) with a central inverted V shaped foliate motif. The object matches a Thomas Class E1 strap end and is most similar to fig 24, page 3 FRG datasheet 33.
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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