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Unique ID: BH-7180B0
Object type certainty: Certain
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A copper-alloy strap-end, dating from the Middle to Late Early-Medieval periods.
The strap-end has outward-bowing sides and tapers towards a basal point. The object bifurcates in the upper third, creating a slot for the now-missing strap. The two plates of this strap slot each have a scalloped top side (slightly damaged on the top plate) and, beneath this, a pair of circular rivet holes. The body of the strap end is undecorated. A transverse ridge separates this body from the inverted-triangular terminal, which, unusually, has no discernable zoomorphic features.
Length: 37.4mm; width: 9.9mm; thickness: 2.8mm; weight: 2.8g.
This is an example of Gabor Thomas's Class A strap-ends, a group probably spanning the period of the late 8th to late 10th/early 11th centuries (Thomas 2003: 2).
Class: Thomas Class A, variant type
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 775
Date to: Circa AD 1000
Quantity: 1
Length: 37.4 mm
Width: 9.9 mm
Thickness: 2.8 mm
Weight: 2.8 g
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 3rd March 2012
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Other reference: Ver 13/155 - 79
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Thomas, G. | 2003 | Late Anglo-Saxon and Viking-age Strap-Ends 750-1100: Part I | Lincolnshire | Finds Research Group AD 700-1700. |