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Description: | Anglo Saxon sceat, c.675-c.750, standard series. The obverse shows a degraded bust facing right with hair consisting of curved lines with pellets at the "roots", and straight lines and pellets representing the face. This is sometimes referred to as a porcupine type of bust. The reverse shows a square standard with a beaded border and an annulet in the centre flanked by four short lines. Weight 1.06g, diameter 12.2mm. See North, 1963, English Hammered coinage Vol 1, no.45, p34, fig 1.19. | 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: | 675
750 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rachel Atherton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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