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Description: | Incomplete and worn cast copper alloy strap end of later Early Medieval date. All that survives of the strap end is the attachment end which consists of the split fitting, for taking the strap, with two rivets, possibly of iron based on corrosion, adjoining the two halves. The two plates, which comprise the split fitting are flat and sub-rectangular in plan. The back plate of the split fitting is plain whilst the face of the front plate is decorated with three horizontal rows and three vertical columns of incised ring and dot decoration. The two rivets obscure some of the upper row of ring and dot decoration. The two rivets are not evenly spaced and it is possible that there was a third, now missing, rivet and, in addition, a fourth or fifth column of ring and dot decoration to the front face of the strap end. This suggestion is strengthened by the unbalanced nature of the surviving openwork moulding which forms the upper edge of the main decorative body of the strap end. The traces of openwork moulding, located immediately below the split fitting, consists of two arches, one of which appears of incomplete width. Based on the likely interpretation of this strap end as belonging to Thomas's Class E grouping of Early Medieval strap ends the openwork body of the strap end was most likely to be symmetrical or near symmetrical in design. Due to the incomplete nature of this strap fitting it is not possible to further classify the strap end into a decorative type sub-category but it may have been Winchester style or anthropomorphic in design when complete.Strap ends of this type are dated broadly to the later Medieval period AD. c.800-1100 and are sometimes classed as Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Scandinavian or Viking in cultural terms.
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