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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy strap-end, dating from the Early-Medieval period.The strap-end would originally have been of typical 'tongue' shape, but the attachment end is damaged and only the base of the slot survives. The sides of the flat-sectioned body have a slight outward bow and converge to a pointed base. Occupying this point and extending to almost halfway up the surviving length, there is a representation of an outward-facing zoomorphic head. Located at the top of the head, the ears comprise a central vertical groove separating two columns of three punched arcs. A V-shaped ridge marks the brow of the animal, beneath which two transverse mouldings indicate the positions of the eyes. The upper surface of the body of the strap-end is decorated by a panel of cross-hatched grooves, possibly with a corroded niello infill.Length: 31.1mm; width: 13.2mm; thickness: 1.9mm. Weight: 2.99g.This is an example of Gabor Thomas's Class A, Type 2 strap-ends, a group characterised both by their shape and their geometric patterns (Thomas 2003: 2). Class A strap-ends are thought to have been made in the period spanning the late 8th to 10th centuries (ibid.).
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