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Description: | An incomplete middle/late Early Medieval (750-1050) copper alloy strap-end of Thomas Class B, Type 1 (Transverse grooved). It has a very thin shaft, rectangular in section, with a wedge-shaped split end and highly stylized animal-head terminal. The top of the split end has broken off, leaving two open rivet holes for missing rivets on both the front and back plates. These plates then narrow into the solid shaft, which is decorated with transverse mouldings down the entire length, before ending in the zoomorphic terminal which consists of a rectangular snout with mouldings for two eyes and two nostrils. There is no decoration on the split end and likewise the reverse is flat and plain. The object is 45.72mm long, has a maximum width of 8.56mm, is 3.61mm thick and weighs 3.07g.The strap end is very similar to Thomas (2003) p5, fig.2, no.13. The author comments that strap ends of Class B Type 1 were introduced in the late 8th or early 9th centuries and remained popular until the 11th. He adds that they were widely distributed in southern and south-eastern England (Thomas 2003: 4).
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