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Description: | Early / mid Saxon copper alloy suspension-unit, openwork, cast in the round in form of two confronted ‘beak-headed’ beasts in sitting position surmounted by suspension-loop. Beasts with forelegs and raised rear legs joined at the feet are decorated with single ring-and-dot for eyes, on the four raised circles on shoulders and three on each moulded raised rear flanks. There are slight transverse ribs on the backs of the beasts, one on the neck and two on the lower back of one beast and two on the neck, one on the upper back and one on the lower back of the other beast. The rear feet appear to be cloven. The two beasts are ‘seated’ on a transverse bar with co-joined broad semi-circular central and narrow sub-trapezoidal flanking loops, 30 x 54mm. Probably Continental, Cf. Die Franken Wegbereiter Europe. (Mainz 1996) 1028, Kat.IX.2.16 and M. Schultze-D??rrlam Die Sp??tr??mischen und Fr??hmittelalterlichen Gr??berfelder von Gondorf, Gem. Kobern-Gondorf, Kr.Mayen-Koblenz (Stuttgart 1990) Tafel 43, no.1. 7th century. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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