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English: Early medieval strap end; cast copper alloy strap end of 9th century date. The strap end is formed of a single sheet of copper alloy which splits at the attachment end into two sheets. There are two circular rivet-holes at the attachment end, the strap end being broken across one of the holes on the front sheet. It has the Anglo-Saxon debased animal head terminal at the other end and is decorated across the front face with incised lines. The terminal has curved panels to define the 'snout' and a roughly triangular area of hatching at the back of the 'head'. This is followed by two side-by-side curved panels, each containing a squared crescent and suggesting ears. The rest of the strap end is divided into two main panels. The first is a long panel decorated with a hatched line which runs along the centre, branching at both ends to thus form four panels within the main panel. These are decorated with concentric chevron designs. The end of the strap end has a further main panel, decorated with a simple incised diagonal cross. This decoration scheme conforms to Haldenby's Group 14 "Beaded divisions / abstract panels". The reverse is undecorated. The strap end has become bent at about the point where the single sheet splits into two. Length 43.93mm, width at wide end 8.6mm, width at 9.95mm, width at narrow end 5.72, thickness at narrow end 2.19mm, thickness at wide end 4.31mm, weight 4.48g. Ref: Haldenby "A Study of 9th Century Anglo-Saxon Strap Ends", Treasure Hunting magazine, 1998