Anglo Saxon Strap End
Thomas Class A Type 1
Bronze/Copper Alloy - blue/green patina
3.6 cm x 0.9 cm
Two rivet holes - head of one rivet in place - other hole damaged in antiquity and rivet missing
Palmette at proximal
Centre panel edged by boxed edge design - centre Trewhiddle type design in niello now degraded
Zoomorphic terminal - head has triangular ears and horns with some detail picked out with niello inlay - eyes surrounded by semi-circle and eyes picked out in niello
Between forehead and horn is a triangular recess which may have held niello or a stone
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