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Description: | Copper alloy horse harness mount. Broadly rectangular mount which is slightly arched. The central plate of the mount has a raised rectangular frame around raised decoration of Style 1 animal art. This comprises two symmetrically arranged birds with head, body and foot in profile. The body of each is formed of two thick lines, one solid and one transversely ribbed. Where the two heads are set next to each other they form a full-face human head with a curled moustache. At each end of the central element is a zoomorphic moulding with prominent pellet eyes with framing grooves and a mid line groove dividing the brow or ears(?) The heads taper in slightly to form the animals' snouts, beyond which the terminals flare out into a flattened fan-shapes. The front retains gilding over most of the surface and there are possible traces of solder on the terminals suggesting they may have had silver foil appliques, the two together making bichrome stlye decoration. At the back behind one terminal is partial,circular sectioned, integral rivet and behind the other the stub of a similar rivet. There are slight hollows behind the two zoomorphic elements. Chris Fern has identified this a similar to parts of head-bridle assemblages (fitted to the brow-band, nose-band or cheekstrap) found at Eriswell 104 4116 (RAF Lakenheath) and suggests a date of the mid 6th Century AD (c. 525 - 575/600). Such pieces are rare. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Hayward Trevarthen, Ciorstaidh - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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