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Description: | Copper-alloy bridle cheekpiece fragment in the form of a Ringerike-style animal head. At one end is a fragment of broken loop; the break is old and worn. The neck of the animal then curves up and round, with a lappet or ear at the top. The head continues the curve, and has a crest of one large curling point and three smaller points. There is a dot eye close to the open jaws, which bend around to rejoin the front of the neck forming two circular holes. The upper jaw has a slightly turned-up end. One face of the cheekpiece is undecorated; the other has not only the dot eye, but also faint rows of short lines, probably made with a punch; there is a transverse row just above the loop, then up to three longitudinal rows following the line of the neck and head. The Ringerike style dates to the 11th century and is a Scandinavian art style. Bridle cheekpieces were used at either end of the bit; this type would have had a second animal head at the other end of the cheekpiece. | 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: | 1000
1100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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