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Description: | Incomplete Anglo-Scandinavian cast copper-alloy pendant with devolved Ringerike-style decoration, dating it to the 11th century. The pendant is lozenge-shaped and has engraved and openwork decoration. The lower corner is broken off; at the top corner is a thickened collared projection, above which the suspension loop is broken off. There are two large sub-circular piercings (diameter c. 6mm) side by side at the centre of the object, and two smaller sub-circular piercings (diameter c. 3.5mm) below them; the object is broken across these lower piercings. There is a flat rounded knop on each side corner, and a slight lump at the centre of each side. There is faint devolved Ringerike-style engraving on the obverse of the object, but the reverse is undecorated. Dark brown surface. Length 33.48mm, width 37.44mm, thickness across break at top (loop) 4.19mm, thickness across centre 2.31mm, weight 8.09g.See NLM-3CD626 for a complete example, from Hibaldstow, North Lincolnshire. Another very similar complete example was found in Norwich (Margeson 1997, fig. 36) with very clear animal-head decoration showing that the corner knops are the ears or horns of a pair of animal heads which curl up from the lower corner, around the larger perforations, to bite with open jaws at an engraved lozenge filling the top corner.Further examples include YORYM-01B933 (with very clear decoration similar to the Norwich example) and NLM-574F83 (similar to the Hibaldstow example).
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