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Description: | Chunky harness hook made from copper alloy. The tip of the curved part of the hook is broken off, but enough survives to show that the hook's cross-section was lozengiform with a lower carination internally and a higher one externally. The hook itself is large and the break is relatively fresh. On the back of the hook is a raised flattened area. The surviving end, near the raised flattened area, turns a right angle, but keeps the same cross-section, and becomes a straight shaft decorated with diagonal grooves running across the carination to give a twisted cable effect. This shaft ends in an animal-head terminal set at right angles and so pointing the same way as the broken end of the hook. The animal head has a pair of grooves on each side which should probably be read as an eye and an ear, and a turned-up snout and open jaws. The snout also appears to have some grooved decoration but the terminal is very worn. Length 66 mm, weight 20.68g.The use of these items on the harness is still unclear; there are two similar ones on the database at SF5095 and ESS-774778. Medieval, probably 13th to 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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