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View full screenAnglo-Saxon bronze strap end decorated on the face with three animal masks in fairly high relief, from Hurly Hawkin, Angus, 800 - 900 AD
X.HHA 30
9th century
Anglo-Saxon
Bronze; single rivet in split end; fragment of leather remains in split end; back plain, face decorated with three animal masks in fairly high relief, one at tip, two facing each other in centre
Hurly Hawkin, Liff and Benvie, Angus, Scotland, Northern Europe
Maldonado, A. 2021. Crucible of Nations: Scotland from Viking Age to Medieval Kingdom. Edinburgh: National Museums Scotland.
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