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Description: | An Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper alloy incomplete bridle fitting(11th century). The bridle fitting has a central domed boss with four arms arranged equidistant around the boss. The central boss has a hollow reverse and on the front surface a flattened circular facet. Three of the arms are broken and missing; of one there is nothing remaining but there are short lengths of the other two arms still present. The complete arm ends in a lozengiform terminal with a large oval perforation and knobs on three corners. Presumably the other three arms had similar terminals. The breaks have the same patchy green patina with red base metal showing through as the rest of the surface suggesting that damage occurred in antiquity.
Dimensions: length: 50.89mm; width: 31.77mm; thickness: 7.56mm; weight: 28.25g. | 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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