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Description: | Zoomorphic terminal possibly from a medieval casket handle. Comprises moulded 3-dimensional animal head with flattened snout. Slight grooves to either side may represent the ears, there is a continuous groove around the wider part of the head, the snout has a sideways V groove to either side which may represent the mouth. The integral broken shank is round in section. A close parallel on a complete handle features in Read's 'History Beneath Our Feet', No. 532. | 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: | 1300
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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