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Unique ID: LEIC-AE3855
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published
Early Medieval copper alloy strap end, 25mm long, 16mm wide and 2mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 3.13grams. The object is rectangular in form and section and is decorated with interlace decoration which resembles 'vertebral ring chain' a variant of Viking Borre decoration.
Notes:
The object matches Thomas Clas E 4, late ninth and tenth centuries, fig 30.
Class: Thomas Class E, Type 4
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Scandinavian style
Date from: Circa AD 875
Date to: Circa AD 1000
Quantity: 1
Length: 25 mm
Width: 16 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight: 3.13 g
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 16th October 2009
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
4 Figure: SK4104
Four figure Latitude: 52.632212
Four figure longitude: -1.395651
1:25K map: SK4104
1:10K map: SK40SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
No references cited so far.
This is Borre ring chain interlace from the mid viking period