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Description: | broken end or terminal from a cast copper alloy object of circular or part-circular form with incised ornament. The fragment is 34mm long, a maximum of 12mm broad and consistently 4.5mm thick. The curving outline of the heavy, cast strip is intended to suggest a serpent's head and body, with gaping jaws and a domed head above the eye, which is among the incised marks on both sides. Behind the eyes are other incised marks meant to represent the texture or scales of the creature's neck. The date of this piece, and what it derives from, are uncertain, but it has no Anglo-Saxon or early Mediaeval (Romanesque) qualities and is probably post-Mediaeval. | 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: | 1600
1850 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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