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Description: | Copper alloy enamelled horse and rider brooch. Missing pin, damaged catchplate, horse tail and legs, some corrosion, missing some enamel. Pin was sprung on a single lug, traces of a spring turn visible in a corroded iron mass, probably the axis bar. Plate 1.8mm thick. Standard horse and rider type outline with some detail on horse head - notched mane, traces of dot and ?ring for eye - and a large rider head with notched lines for hair and trace of a dot for the eye. Light blue / turquoise enamel in the two areas on the horse's body, red in the long shape on the rider, the other area empty. Length surviving is 30mm. Similar to the Hockwiold group (Gurney 1986 EAA 31, 65 Fig 41) but the larger rider's head giving differences in outline shape. The horse and rider types are often found in groups on religious sites and are commonest in north Suffolk / Norfolk / Cambs and ?Lincs, ie in and around Icenian territory, but also in Hampshire (Hayling Island) and Somerset (Lamyatt Beacon). Dated contexts indicate 3rd and 4th century use. | Subjects: | horse and rider zoomorphic | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Plouviez, Judith | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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