Rights Holder: North Lincolnshire Museum
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Unique ID: NLM-6E69E5
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap end. Large cast tongue-shaped openwork strap end, Thomas Class E Type 1. The larger part of the plate is occupied by zoomorphic forms arranged in asymmetrical pairs to either side of a central branched rib, tree or stalk, a design held to derive from 'inhabited plant scroll'. Limbs or other appendages of one creature cross on the right hand side of the plate, while a weasel-like creature creeps along the opposite edge towards the curved end - this reporter would cheerfully accept a better-informed reading of the subject. The ornament terminates abruptly at the inner end of the strap end, on a horizontal bar beyond which a thinner continuation bears one complete and two now-open drilled fixing points. The object is darkened in a manner recalling objects treated with oil by their finders, whether this effect or a more ancient treatment is represented here is uncertain. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 850-1000.
Length: 53.4mm, Width: 26.4mm, Thickness: 4.5mm, Weight: 27.23gms
Class: Thomas Class E Type 1
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 850
Date to: Circa AD 1000
Quantity: 1
Length: 53.4 mm
Width: 26.4 mm
Thickness: 4.5 mm
Weight: 27.23 g
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 17th September 2018
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Other reference: NLM40536
Primary material: Copper alloy
Decoration style: Interlace
Completeness: Incomplete
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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