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Description: | An incomplete Early Saxon gilt bell-shaped pendant with almost identical "chip carved", engraved and stamped ornament on both faces. At the top, below the point at which missing suspension loops would have projected, two secondary rivet holes, one retaining a rivet, have been driven through uncertainly interpretable zoomorphic ornament. Below this, the curving necks of two animals spring from a lozengiform moulding and curve around to openwork heads at the base. These have huge open jaws, the lower ones scrolled, and the upper missing. The lozenge and animal necks are decorated with engraved lines along the edges and a punched motif of three dots set triangle-wise. In the centre, between the jaws and below the lozenge, a transverse moulding lies just above another break.There is some similarity to a pendant from Suffolk (MacGregor and Bolick 1993, 162-3, cat. no. 25.6, but the bifaced decoration is quite remarkable. Late 6th century, and perhaps from horse harness.
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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