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Description: | Incomplete Middle Saxon to Late Saxon copper alloy strap end of Thomas' (2003) Class A type 5, upper end broken, attachment-end missing. Decorated with sub-rectangular cells, impressions of mostly missing scrolling silver wire in the inlaid niello. Animal-head terminal with a curved groove in both the moulded ears, and on the forehead, between the ears and the eyes a small concave-sided lozenge with niello. Broken below eyes, snout missing. Surviving length 21mm. Width 9mm. 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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