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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy swivel. This swivel would have originally have consisted of two D-shaped loops, one with an integral bolt which would have fitted inside a hole in the bar of the other D-shaped loop.
Only the D-shaped loop with an integral bolt now survives. It measures 26.08mm in height and 21.66mm in width. The D-shaped loop terminates in animal heads. These heads have small crescent shaped ears, heavy brows and tapering snouts. They are undoubtedly examples of romanesque art, but this style of decoration, with animal heads, was used throughout the medieval period. The loop itself has a worn oval cross-section. The animal heads have their mouths open so as to appear to be grasping a conical soild part, which has a flat underside with an integral cylindrical bolt prjecting from its centre.
Swivels are multi-use items and it is therefore impossible to assign a specific function to them. Similar swivels, again with animal heads but this time holding the straight bar of the larger D-shaped loop with a hole through it rather than a bolt, have been discovered at Twinstead, Essex (see SF-082EA0) and Stow Cum Quy, Cambridgeshire (see SF-50A562). | 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
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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