Record Details
| NHER Number: | 33574 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Middle or Late Saxon strap end |
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Summary
A Middle or Late Saxon strap end with an animal head terminal and the remains of niello or silver inlay, found by a metal detectorist.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 19 35 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG13NE |
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| Parish: | HANWORTH, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
March/April 1998. Metal detecting find.
Incomplete Middle Saxon/Late Saxon strap end with animal head terminal.
Split end missing, below this, object is rather bent and worn, and has 3 slightly irregular ?accidental holes with no decoration visible around. Below this area is an unclear motif inlaid in niello or silver. Animal head terminal is better preserved with a pair of ears, some (again unclear) niello/silver inlay in the forehead, 2 dot eyes (with once some inlay) and a rather sweet slightly uptilted (bent?) pointy snout. 9th century.
Identified by H. Geake (A&E).
A. Rogerson (NLA) 12 May 1998.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
Associated Finds
- STRAP FITTING (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
- STRAP FITTING (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph. |
| --- | Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white. |
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