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Description: | This is possibly a harness fitting of unknown form. The body of the item is a seated bird, a cross between a hen and a duck. The bird has droplet shaped wings with oblique ribbing. The head is distorted and damaged, therefore any detail is not visible. The bird is 'sat' on a sub-crescentic shape which is sub-circular in section and tapers slightly. Both terminals of the crescentic are broken, and these maybe recent breaks as they do not have a patina, however, the metal is not shiny. The base of the bird, in front of the crescent, there is a semi-circular shaped indentation. The other side of the crescent, on the base of the bird, is a sub-oval, slightly irregular indention which appears to have iron staining within it. The majority of the item has a dark brown patina.
Sally Worrell writes: Although this record has no image and its identification can not be confirmed, it has been retained on the database in the hope that this information may be of interest to someone. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 43
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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