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Description: | An incomplete flat copper-alloy cheekpiece in the shape of a Ringerike style animal head and neck. It is 36mm in length, 34mm in width (this is the greatest width, measured across the head) and 2.5mm thick. The neck is rectangular in shape, 12mm in width, and with the head forms an arching curve which tapers towards its terminal/snout. The head has two large rounded knops, 11mm in length and 7mm in width, and a third smaller point projecting from it. The long snout ends in three points. The neck and head are decorated on the front face with engraved boarder lines and several more longitudinal lines which surround two ring and dot motifs, one roughly below each of the rounded projecting knops, can also be seen. The ring and dot motifs could represent the animals eyes. Similar decorative fragments of bridle cheekpieces have been discovered at Culpho, Suffolk. They are Viking or late early medieval, dating to between c1000-1099. | Subjects: | cheekpiece | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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