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Description: | Fragment of Late Saxon copper alloy harness cheek-piece, flat-sectioned Ringerike style openwork (4mm thick), curved stylised dragon head with projecting crest (similar to a the coxcomb of a cockerel) of four points, large ring-and-dot for eye, flaring mouth with projecting tongue defined by engraved rocker-arm lines and broken across remains of large perforation. >38 x >45mm. Williams (2007) Type 1, similar examples in Pederson 1997-8 ??Bidselbesag fra B??geskov Strand?? KUML (Denmark), fig.2 and fig.3, nos.1-4. Late 10th-11th century. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bales, Ellen - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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