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Description: | A complete copper-alloy swivel. This swivel consists of two D-shaped loops, the smaller of these loops measures 14mm in length and 10mm in width, the loop measures 6mm internally. This loop has an integral bolt which fits inside a hollow hole in the straight bar of the larger D-shaped loop. This straight bar is unusual as the hole for the bolt does not perforate the inside face of the bar, indeed, it is a circular hollow rather than a perforation, as is normally seen. The larger loop measures 19mm in height and 21mm in width, the straight bar is held at either end by animal heads. These heads have small crescent shaped ears, heavy brows and short square ended snouts. The are undoubtedly examples of romanesque art, but this style of decoration, with animal heads, was used throughout the medieval period. Swivels are multi-use items and it is therefore impossible to assign a specific function to them (Geake 2001, 72). A similar swivel, again with animal heads holding the straight bar of the larger D-shaped loop has been discovered at Stow Cum Quy, Cambridgeshire. | Subjects: | swivel | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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