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Description: | A copper-alloy fragment of a late early medieval/Viking Age decorative bridle cheekpiece. This cheekpiece is unusual as it has open work perforations and does not seem to depict the more typically found Ringerike horses head; see SF-DC65C8 a cheekpiece from Ixworth, Suffolk for an example of this.
The fragment is flat and roughly oval in overall shape, measuring 56mm in lenght and 32.1mm in width. There is one roughly central oval shaped hole and a smaller triangular shaped on behind this. One longitudinal edge is curvilinear and shaped with slightly irregular V-shaped notches and the other is more angular in form. There are also traces of grooved decoration on slightly rounded front face, the back face is flat and undecorated.
This cheekpiece fragment is similar to one found at Ixworth, see SF41b986, with two perforatios, a roughly oval shape and shaped longitudinal edges. Both examples are of reddish coloured copper-alloy typical of Viking Age stirrup mounts and terminals. | 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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