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Description: | Copper alloy zoomorphic brooch (or possible fragment of folding knife handle) in the form of a running dog and is cast in the round. The head has a long, round ended snout and a ring and dot eye on each side. The back of the head is swept back to a point and is decorated with two vertical incised lines on each side. Behind the head the neck is decorated with two diagonal fin-like collars. The body of the dog is slim with an angled change of direction at the back legs. It is decorated with a vertical rib flanked by narrow grooves on both flanks of the dog (the positions do not correspond on each side). The tail appears broken and tapers slightly. It is decorated with a cast crescent shape on the upper surface. The front and back legs are cast as one. Under the front feet is the stub of a pierced lug for attachment of the pin (missing) and under the back feet is a groove for fastening the end of the pin. This is similar to continental types illustrated in Hattatt, 2000, page 359, fig. 218, Nos. 1644 & 1643. Although these are both bow brooches with wings and axis bars, the style of the animal is very similar (particularly No. 1643). It is also possible that this is a part of a folding knife handle originally with a scene of a dog chasing a hare. | 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: | 100
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Ciorstaidh Hayward Trevarthen | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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