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Description: | Cast copper alloy double-looped bit or bridle link with a debased zoomorphic head in centre between a circular looped terminal at one end and a square terminal at the other end. The head has two eyes, in relief, with a brow ridge above and a triangular nose section between them. It appears to have an iron stud at the end of its nose or coming out of its mouth, which may have had something mounted onto it. The circular terminal has four moulded transverse knops, each pair opposing the other, and equally spaced around its circumference.
It appears to be related to cheek pieces of Williams Type 3 (see Williams 2007, FRG Datasheet 39) which have a rectangular terminal and a zoomorphic face. A similar example from Droxford in Hampshire is illustrated on page 4, Fig. 4c, which may be a broken bit link. These are dated to c.AD 1050-1150. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Tyacke, Anna - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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