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Description: | An Early Medieval (Anglo Saxon) copper alloy mount, possibly a bridle fitting - a pendant for a horse's head-harness (early - middle centuries of the 6th century). The mount has a complicated shape in plan - starting from the base it has a triangular section that develops into a lozenge-shaped middle section before it starts to flare out. The mount is broken at this point. There are traces of iron corrosion around the broken edge. The mount has some simple incised decoration on the middle lozenge-shaped section. There are two parallel lines extending up the mid line, one line forming a border on each of the lower sides of the lozenge and three incised horizontal lines at the bottom of the middle section. The base triangular section has trace of a white metal coating, silvering or tinning. The copper alloy has a dark green patina.
There are many parallels from excavated and PAS finds of horse-harness fittings (e.g. WMID-AA7268). For lists and pictures of other examples, see esp. C. Fern, 'The archaeological evidence for equestrianism in early Anglo-Saxon England, c. 450-700', in A. Pluskowski (ed.), Just Skin and Bones? New Perspectives on Human-animal Relations in the Historic Past, BAR I.S. 1410, 43-71, esp. fig. 5.14. Also in M. Carver, A seventh-century princely burial ground and its context (2005), 299-301.
Dimensions: length: 51.23mm; width: 24.04mm; thickness: 2.45mm; weight: 11.57g. | 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: | 500
550 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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