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Description: | A symmetrical fitting comprising a central square block, hollowed below, with a central circular aperture, and two projections in the form of animal heads. On the upper face of the central block is a series of incised crosses which form a frame around the hole. On each of the two opposing outer faces of the block is a single incised ring-and-dot. The animal heads both have snub noses and deeply sunken eyes which may originally have held glass settings. Each has a series of pairs of engraved lines filled with narrow parallel grooves which run behind the forehead and also cross the face behind the nose. The triangular area behind one ?face? has further indistinct lines of curving shapes which may be intended to represent hair. The central block has a curving lower side which must reflect the shape of the object to which it was attached. From the flat lower surfaces of each of the two heads is an expanding projection, presumably for fixing the object and neither of which appears to be complete. | 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: | 1100
1200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | David Williams | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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