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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy bridle fitting cheekpiece, it is late early medieval or Viking Age, c1000-1100, in date and similar cheekpieces are known from Westerfield, Claydon and Rattlesden, Suffolk. It measures 48mm in surviving length, most of one terminal end of the cheekpiece is missing due to an old break. The complete terminal is lozenge shaped, 25mm by 21mm in size with rounded knops on three corners, it has a large oval shaped perforation, 11mm by 10mm in size. Beyond this complete terminal there is a rectangular arm and a central rounded boss. After the boss there is immediately the other incomplete terminal this may have also been lozenge shaped but given the angle of the surviving fragments it is perhaps more likely to have been oval in shape when complete. The front face of this cheekpiece is rounded and the back face flat.
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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