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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Early-Medieval strap end of Thomas' Class B Type 4. The attachment end is missing due to old breaks. It is rectangular in form, D-shaped in section with flat back face and rounded front face, tapering towards a decorative zoomorphic terminal. The front face has extensive moulded and incised decoration formed from multiple animal heads. At the incomplete attachment end is a transverse rectangular panel with two circular ears that has central crescent shaped mouldings. Below this the front face is faceted to give a triangular section, and has decoration comprising a central vertical row of punched annulets, three evenly spaced transverse grooves and at top and bottom opposing diagonal grooves. At the terminal end is a second transverse panel with crescentic ears flanked by a row of three punched annulets and separated from the terminal end my a deep transverse groove. The terminal itself is triangular in form with oval shaped ears at the top that have central crescentic motifs and a transverse band of punched annulets, beneath which is a tapering snout, diagonal grooves for eyes and a vertical band of punched annulets. The base of the snout has a thickened transverse band. The entire object has amid green patina and measures 40.51mm in length, 8.34mm in width, 3.94mm in thickness and 4.98g in weight.This strap end falls into Thomas' Class B Saxon strap ends and is further defined as a Type 4 strap end due to the shape of the plate and the stylised, multi-headed zoomorphic decoration (see Thomas, 2003: pp. 4, fig. 2.16-17). This indicates a date in the 9th-10th centuries AD for the current example.
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