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Description: | Part of an Early-Medieval to Medieval copper-alloy strap-end.The piece represents the bottom end of a tongue-shaped strap-end with openwork design. The artefact is of flat section, its straight sides converging towards the rounded base. Two sub-oval perforations form part of an indecipherable pattern, of which other aspects include raised areas, grooves and a pair of moulded swirls in recessed, pear-shaped fields. The piece has broken at the point of further perforations.Length: 19.1mm; width: 16.9mm; thickness: 1.7mm. Weight: 2.22g.The shape of this strap-end identifies it as an example of Gabor Thomas's Class E strap-ends (2004: 2), for which the suggested date range is 10th to 11th century (Geake 2001: ill. 11). Class E strap-ends are variously decorated using a range of art styles. The nature of the remaining design on this piece suggests a highly devolved artistic content, perhaps derived from the Winchester (Class E1) and Borre (E4) styles of ornamentation.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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