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Description: | A gilt asymmetric pendant-strap horse harness mount with two integral rivets on the reverse, bent, with parts of one terminal and the adjacent sides missing. The decoration is cast, and silver sheets are attached by solder to both terminals. 6th century. Tania Dickinson comments: The most characteristic of this type have a lozengiform body and a full-face Style I mask at the junction of the body and butt and/or terminal. The butt is missing, and I am not sure what the out-turned coils below it might have turned into - animal or bird heads or a simple mask most probably. The terminal is most interesting because of its bell-shaped profile and central 'tab': this links it to both another large class of likely horse-harness - 'bell-shaped pendants' - and to details of some asymmetric pendent-strap mounts. In particular, compare the example with trident-like terminal from Eastry, Kent, and others from Ilam, Staffordshire (PAS, WMID-AA7268) and Lambourn, Berkshire (PAS, BERK-461026).
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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