Pyramidal mount
Unknown Artist
- Art Funded
- 2005
- Dimensions
- Width: 2 cm
- Vendor
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
The strap fitting is a high status object, to be associated with a royal rank in Anglo-Saxon society.
The fitting was functional and would have been attached to the suspension straps of a sword or seax scabbard where they tightened the scabbard suspension loop.
Provenance
Discovered by a metal detector user near Dorchester and declared Treasure in 2003.