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Description: | Harness Mount, Bridle cheek-piece Anglo-Saxon 11th century Length 60mm, width 26mm, thickness 7mm Central roundel, sub oval in plan (12mm long 10mm wide, 7mm thick) with a flat top. The roundel is flanked by a bar on either side and a knop on the top and bottom (the knops are 4mm long, 4mm wide, 5mm high). The bars that protrude from either side of the roundel are (11mm long, 7-5mm wide, 5mm high), with a trapezoid cross section. At the end of one of the bars is an oval loop. This loop has a knop on the top and bottom side (3m long, 4mm wide, 2mm high), these are situated on the short side of the oval. There is a further knop at the terminal (6mm high, 5mm wide, 3mm thick). There would have been a symmetrical loop on the end of the other bar. However, this side has been extensively damaged resulting in only a fragment of that loop remaining consisting of about a half of one side. Half of the artefact had a light green pitted patina whilst the test has a reddish brown colour pitted surface, furthermore, on some of the corners the corrosion products have been worn to revel the original metal surface. Therefore, none of the original surface remains. Examples are know from sites such as Middle Harling and are generally thought to date to the 11th century.
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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