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Description: | Incomplete medieval gilt copper alloy probable horse harness mount cast in the form of a bird. Worn elongated neck ending in the remians of the beaked head, body with stumps of outstreatched wings and damaged splayed tail, stump of integral rivet on underside of body. Surviving width (across wings) 12mm. Length 32mm. Thickness of body at stump of rivet 6.5mm. See the cast bird riveted to an upright at the top of an elaborate harness mount with pendants in the British Museum (Ward-Perkins 1949, fig.2). Alternatively it may be a mount from a spur side, such as the swan on a rowel spur from a 14th-century context in London, which is only 28mm long (Medieval Horse and its Equipment figs. 91-2, no.323). 13th-14th 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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