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Description: | Gilded copper-alloy horse-harness mount consisting of a flat sub-rectangular horizontal bar with incurved ends, one face decorated with chip-carved reticulate interlace. On one side of the bar is a pelta- or mushroom-shaped projection containing a panel of chip-carved reticulate interlace flanked by two spirals. On the other side of the bar is a second broader and shallower projection containing two long nosed animals' heads flanked by two spirals. The reverse of the object is undecorated, but has two integrally cast loops, orientated longitudinally along the bar. This object is complete and in very good condition.The object is Irish and of eighth or ninth century date. It can be closely paralleled by mounts from Soma farm, Hoyland, Sandes, Rogaland, Norway (Youngs 1989, 118, item 114a-e) and, like the Norwegian find, is likely to represent Viking activity. There are several more distant parallels on the PAS database, including SF8875, BUC-B9B352, LEIC-09D1C8 and NMS-4CF1B6. These objects are discussed by Susan Youngs in C. Hourihane (ed) (2001), 'From Ireland Coming: Irish Art from the early Christian to the late Gothic period' including one of very similar shape from Upper Bush near Cuxton in Kent. Youngs identifies this object as a bridle mount but comments that these mounts could have been developed from shrine or box mounts.
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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