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Unique ID: CAM-190A27
Object type certainty: Certain
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A copper-alloy strap-end of Early-Medieval date. The artefact is complete with the exception of a worn break across two of the four rivet holes.
This almost complete strap-end is a Class A and probably type 2, See Gabor, T. 2003 The Finds Research Group AD700-1700 - Datasheet 32: Late Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Age strap-ends 750-1100: Part 1. The strap-end weighs 1.84g and has a length of 33.5mm. The maximum width, across the concave sides, is 8.3mm. An animal-head terminal is present with a sub-rectangular decorative pannel located behind the ears. This pannel is formed by shallow thin incised lines and infilled with closely set diagonal shallow thin incised lines that create a cross-hatched field. The reverse side of the slit end is almost complete and shows that the edge is flat. Two small rivet holes are present set in from the terminal edge by 1.2mm and separated by a gap of 2.9mm. These rivet holes have a diameter of 1.2mm. One corner is slightly missing, the break just clipping the edge of a rivet hole. The front side of the slit also has a break but this is across the opposite corner and removes a larger part of the strap-end, the entirity of one of the front rivet holes having been lost. This strap-end has a thickness of 1.3mm below the slit and current thickness of 3.2mm over the slit end terminal. The maximum gap within the slit accounts for 1.5mm.
Class: Thomas Class A, Type 2
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 750
Date to: Circa AD 1100
Quantity: 1
Length: 33.5 mm
Width: 8.3 mm
Weight: 1.84 g
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st January 2014 - Monday 31st March 2014
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Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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