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Description: | A fragment of a copper alloy figurine, comprising a heavily cast head of a knight, with stylised incised features, wearing a sallet (open-faced helmet), with an uneven break below a flattened V-shaped rib at his neck that probably represents the upper edge of a gorget. The head is slightly hollowed and uneven on the reverse. Possible once part of a figure of a knight from a depiction of the resurrection of Christ where He is shown stepping from the tomb over the recumbent and sleeping figures of soldiers. Such a scene could have formed part of the decoration of a portable Easter sepulchre or altar. Cf. a very similar fragment from Kenninghall (HER 30735) illustrated in Norfolk Archaeol. 44 (2003), p. 367, fig.7 A., and a complete recumbent figure of related type in Ashley, Rogerson and Geake (2000), Norfolk Archaeol. 43, pp. 507-8. 15th-century.
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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