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Kirkcudbright
Findspot, Strap End (Copper Alloy)(10th Century)
Site Name Kirkcudbright
Classification Findspot, Strap End (Copper Alloy)(10th Century)
Canmore ID 354439
Site Number NX65SE 456
NGR NX 69 50
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/354439
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkcudbright
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
Metal Detector Find (2016)
NX 69 50 A near complete copper-alloy, openwork, tongue-shaped strap end with knop terminal and simple debased foliate decoration was found during metal detecting near Kirkcudbright. This is a late 10th/11th-century strap end in Winchester style (type E1c). It is the northernmost example of
the corpus (compiled by Thomas in 2000) by some distance.
Claimed as Treasure Trove (TT/138/15), allocated to The Stewartry Museum
Alice Blackwell – National Museums Scotland
(Source: DES, Volume 17)
