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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy unidentified object with a stags head terminal. One antler is missing due to an old break, the rest of the object, from the neck of the stag downwaerds is also missing due to old breaks. The complete antler measures 36.3mm in length, it has a roughly oval shaped cross-section and measures 6.7mm in width, it has two pointed protrusions projecting fromn its front face and terminates in three protrusions. The top of the head, inbetween the antlers is flat and decorated with longitudinal grooves, there is also a central longitudinal groove running down the centre of the snout, with small transverse grooves either side of it. There are also two incised pointed oval shaped eyes on either side of the snout. The snout it long and slender, it is rectangular in shape, it is 20.5mm in length and 8.7mm in width, and is square ended, with two parallel diagonal grooves near to its tip representing nostrils. Projecting at right angles from below the antlers there are two pointed oval shaped ears, these are also long and slender and have two oval grooves, one inside the other, on their inside face. The neck of the stag is set at a roughly 90 degree angle to the head, it is rectangular in shape.
The date of this stags head is uncertain, JD Hill of the British Museum has examined it and believes it is definately not Iron Age in date. It has also been examined by Angela Evans and Debra Adams of the British Museum and they believe that it could possibly be Anglo-Saxon in date, it therefore most likely to be early medieval to medieval in date. | 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: | 1540
1700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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