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Description: | An apparently complete copper alloy middle/ late Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) strap-end with a straight rather than curved short end. The strap-end is solid with a stepped attachment end and a thin plate of a different copper alloy attached to the stepped area with two rivets. It is rectangular in shape.The strap end is decorated with a symmetrical, rather geometric design and Robert Webley suggests it is a Class E, Type 5 (Carolingian) (pers.comm. May 2015). A central stem is decorated to top and bottom with a pair of longitudinal grooves. At the stepped-end, to either side of the stem is a raised square outline with a horizontal bar across the centre. Below, and reaching almost to the opposite edge of the object on either side, are two pairs of triangles, points to the long edge and moulded at an angle. At the very end is a raised narrow thin line to one side and a raised wiggly line to the other.To the reverse there is a slightly hollowed rectangular area 10x7mm, offset to lie behind the centre of the decorated area.The thin copper alloy sheet plate measures 14.0x8.1x0.5mm. Both rivets are intact, one of the same coloured alloy as the plate (dark green), the other the same coloured alloy of the body of the strap-end (red-brown).The strap-end measures 27.6mm in length, 13.9mm in max.width (at the stepped end, narrowing to 12.5mm at the opposite end), 5.09mm in max.thickness and weighs 9.03g.For Carolingian strap-ends see Thomas (2012, 499; fig. 6); this is of his Type 2, as described therein (ibid., 500-501).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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STRAP END
Fragment of Late Early-Medieval copper…
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