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Description: | Incomplete late Saxon copper alloy trapezoidal openwork strap-end, worn and corroded. Two rivet-holes containing iron rivets at split attachment end (corner broken across rivet-hole at one corner of back part). The surviving lower end is broken across twin perforations, with projecting stumps of the splayed sides and a central head or skull-like element, set between a flanking transverse band (stepped forward with offset section) of six rectangular segments, the head with four drilled blind holes and the lower end broken across two more possible blind holes. Surviving length 27mm. Surviving width 28mm. 3mm thick at head. Weighs 8.57g. The possible double animal-head motif is similar to that found on objects from a number of sites, these are discussed, in a note on an example from St Faith's Lane, Norwich, by Helen Geake in Emery, P. EAA 120, 2007, 199. Other findspots include Postwick (HER 25984), Burgh Castle (HER 13227), Sandringham (HER 3257) and Whissonsett (HER 31879) in Norfolk, and Fishergate, York (Rogers 1993) fig. 650 no. 5314, and fig.652, no.5320. Probably 10th century.
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