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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy bridle cheek piece, measuring 48mm in length. One lozenge shaped terminal survives in its completion, it is oval internally and has a knob on three of the corners. The fourth corner tapers into a D-section arm which flares very slightly into a central rounded moulding. Immedieately after this moulding the other arm flares into an incomplete oval shaped projection, this may have been part of the other terminal. The breaks are old. This cheekpiece is late Anglo-Saxon, 11th century in date. Similar cheekpieces have been discovered elsewhere in Suffolk, from Brantham, Alterton, and Blaxhall.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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