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Description: | Romano-British cast pendant in the form of a pair of addorsed horse-heads modelled in the round, above a tapering, baluster moulded, round-sectioned spike, with a centrally placed suspension hole. The eyes are represented by ring-and-dots and both sides of the horse??s necks are decorated with three ring-and-dots and smaller annulets. The manes are indicated by engraved V-sectioned grooves.
Height 39.5mm. Width 33.5mm. Thickness 7.5mm. Suspension hole diameter 3mm. Weight 16.97g.
The spike is paralleled by that on a bird??s head pendant from Deopham (HER 41108, Gurney 2006, 117, fig. 3D. The horse-heads are very strikingly reminiscent of those that project from late Roman military buckle frames of Hawkes and Dunning (1961) Type 1B of the late 4th or early 5th century, an ??exclusively British innovation?? (Clarke 1979, 275). | 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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