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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy Early-Medieval strap end of G Thomas Class A type 5, missing the zoomorphic terminal due to old breaks, now worn.The attachment end is split, and the back face missing a fragment at this point. There are two adjacent circular rivet holes through the attachment end and below these a fan-shaped motif. The plate is slightly convex sided and roughly half of it now survives. It is decorated on the front face with two parallel rectangular longitudinal fields of niello, which are inlaid with several scrolls of silver wire, between these are also small annulets of silver wire.This strap end measures 19.96mm in length, 10.39mm in width and 2.82mm in thickness, 2.23g in weight.Thomas Class A type 5 strap ends are most commonly found in Suffolk and Norfolk and appear to be of East Anglian origin (Thomas, 2003, pp.4, fig 1 no 11).
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