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Description: | Copper alloy Anglo-Scandinavian tongue shaped strap end of the Borre style, Tenth century AD in date. The strap end has been made from a single plate of cast copper alloy and is tongue shaped, with a slight border around the edge of the tongue with two rivet attachment and three ring and dot patterns above the border. The front plate is decorated with a Borre Style head and shoulders with face animal mask with ring and dot eyes and rounded ears there are slight traces of white-metal coating. Below these motifs there is the head and shoulders of a human figure in low relief, facing forwards with the hands raised level with the head the fingers are splayed. Similarities with SF-FA89E6, NLM2763 and NLM161 on the database. The length is 53mm and 29mm wideThe Borre style was current in Scandinavia in the late 9th and 10th centuries and probably emerged in England in the late 9th century (Kershaw 2012:3).
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