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Description: | Fragment of medieval zoomorphic probable binding strip from furniture, bent narrowed thin-sectioned bar projects from the snout of a cast animal head that is highly stylised and angular with crudely modelled ears, eyes and mouth. The snout is pierced by a rivet-hole containing a copper alloy rivet. The bar continues as a bent D-sectioned shank pierced by a further copper alloy rivet and is broken across third rivet-hole. 8 x >110mm (unbent). Cf. Coad (1982) fig.43 and a hollow-backed example in Margeson (1993) fig.43, no.473. 12th-early 13th 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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