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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy harness fitting, likely to be late Anglo-Saxon in date. One end of this harness fitting resembles a cheek-piece as it has an incomplete lozenge-shaped part, with knops on the two parallel surviving corners and an oval hole through it, as many late Anglo-Saxon cheek pieces do. This part of the object then tapers into a rectangular arm, 14mm in length and 9mm in width, there is then a oval boss beneath which the object flares into the part which does not resemble a cheek-piece, it is rectangular in shape and one end is curving upwards there is an incomplete oval hole below and diagonally placed from the boss. The front face of this harness fitting is rounded and the back face flat. Overall it is 74mm in length and 23mm in width at its widest point. Similar cheekpieces are published in Anne Pedersen, "Riding Gear from Late Viking-Age Denmark", Journal of Danish
Archaeology 13 (1996-7), 133-160. | 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: | 410
1066 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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