EARLY MEDIEVAL STRAP FITTING

800

Strap distributor with central 'head' 23.27mm x 21.64mm which is decorated with a moulded grinning male face with incised decoration on both sides, made of 2 halves split roughly at the mouth, the 2 halves swivel around a central axis. The top of the head is furnished with two 'horns', which appear to have originally expanded into the stirrup shaped strap distributors, a third intact distributor runs from the central axis below the chin, this is decorated with miniature zoomorphic 'stirrup terminals' at the points where the curved sides join the strap bar and is 22.72 mm wide