NHER 29390 (Find Spot record) - Middle or Late Saxon strap ends

January 1993. Metal detecting find.
Middle Saxon silver strap end fragment; animal head terminal and part of body decorated with niello inlay. Inlaid glass eyes, finely-modelled muzzle and brow, niello inlaid on the muzzle and above the eyes. Above the eyes is a stem with three leaves and a 'square' all speckled in Trewhiddle-style manner. Circular ears with a cross in each, also speckled. Above the ears elaborate leaf ornament in silver (speckled) with niello inlay. Niello probably once in the ears around the crosses too.
See (S2)
To be photographed.
Identified S.Margeson (NCM).
D.Gurney (NLA) 5 February 1993.

October 1993. Metal detecting finds.
2 further Middle Saxon silver strap ends in similar style to that found earlier, (S2).
See description of all three in file.
D.Gurney (NLA) 24 November 1993.

See (S1) (photocopy in file).
D.Gurney (NLA) 22 May 1996.