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Description: | Approximately half of an Early-Medieval copper alloy comb-pendant. The pendant has two pelta-shaped openings (one of which is incomplete), with a central-stalk dividing the ornament into two inturned zoomorphic heads executed in Ringerike-style ornament. The comb preserves the remains of a suspension loop at its crest, confirming its use as a pendant. The comb has ten teeth remaining. Each tooth measures 10mm by 1mm.Two other comb-pendants are known from Britian, both of which are recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database as: NMS-1801, Brampton, Norfolk; and NARC-B3E1B5 from 'South Lincolnshire'. The South Lincolnshire pendant is very similar to this one but has the remains of a large copper alloy suspension ring, or perhaps the basal loop in a chain threaded through the suspension loop at the top.These combs (or comb-shaped pendants as they are more properly termed) are closely paralleled in the area around the Baltic Sea such as northwest Russia, Finland, Latvia and Lithuania, with rare examples from Estonia and Sweden. The three comb pendants recorded on the PAS database are the subject of a fuller discussion by Ashby & Bolton (Ashby, S. & Bolton, A., forthcoming, 'Searching with a fine-toothed comb: Combs for Humans and Horses on the PAS database', in 'S.Worrell, K. Leahy, M. Lewis and J.Naylor (eds), A Decade of Discovery: Proceedings of the Portable Antiquities Scheme Conference 2007, BAR).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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