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Description: | Late Early Medieval or early Medieval (11th to 12th centuries) strap end: The copper alloy strap end has an elongated trapezoidal body which is mainly undecorated. In profile the strap end is split at the widest terminal. The two plates, at this split, have a small gap and is riveted together with a copper alloy rivet at either end. The narrow terminal is decorated with an upright projecting long necked animal head. The neck is rectangular in section with rounded corners, with three vertical ridges at the base on both side faces. The head is also rectangular with a notch for a mouth and three ridges across the top of the head depicting, possibly a mane. The surface of the strap end has a brown/green coloured patina. It measures 41.47mm long, 6.25mm wide, and 11.16mm tall, weighing 3.6g.The strap end is likely to be dated to the 11th to 12th centuries, but this is not certain. Two other almost identical strap ends have been recorded on the database, SWYOR-BA96E5 from Hillam, North Yorkshire and DENO-47F426 from Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire. Neither are certain on the date and comparisons have not been found. Objects with similar styled terminals have been recorded on the PAS database, LIN-D6F2C2, LIN- 4F65C, NLM5639, SWYOR-761334, NMS-249246, SWYOR-761334, SF-1EADD4, and NLM-CA23E3, three of which have been published; Medieval Archaeology for 2005, p. 345-6, figs. 7c and 7d. No excavated examples of this style of object are known presently but they are thought to date to the early Medieval period.
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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