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Description: | Fragment of Late Saxon harness cheek-piece, flat-sectioned Ringerike style openwork (4-5mm thick), curved stylised dragon head with projecting lobes around profile forming mane, ear and profile of snout, twin perforations (outermost worn and broken), remains of larger central perforation at break above which is a hexagonal boss with dot at springing of broken shank at apex (upper part and loop missing), decorated with engraved bordering lines and details of eyes, mouth and limbs. >57 x >38mm. Cf. Pederson 1997-8 ??Bidselbesag fra B??geskov Strand?? KUML (Denmark), fig.3, no.1. Williams??s Type 1 (FRG Datasheet 39 (2007)). 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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