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Description: | Fragment of a silver gilt pin with zoomorphic terminal. The terminal is in the shape of a long-muzzled, tripartite canine head, with round eyes and pricked ears. The long nose is detailed with a rounded tip. The forehead is decorated with three bands divided into short segments. The pin shaft is sub-rectangular in cross-section, with rounded corners; it is bent before the break.Pins are a well-known dress accessory of the Middle-Saxon period, and they are known to sport a variety of terminals. This type of zoomorphic terminal is fairly widespread, and varies in quality and refinement, sometimes sporting inset eyes of blue glass. A common parallel can be found in the illumination of late 7th/8th century manuscripts, where such heads are often used as terminals to letters or decorations, as for instance in the Lindisfarne Gospels.
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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