File:?late Saxon ?pendant (FindID 58719).jpg
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edit?late Saxon ?pendant | |||
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Katie Hinds, 2004-01-08 15:24:34 |
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?late Saxon ?pendant |
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Description |
English: Incomplete copper alloy ?pendant. It is circluar in shape (max diameter 21mm) with two loop projections, opposite each other (length 34mm). One is mostly broken and flat-backed, like the circular part, with an estimated diameter of 6mm. The other loop (also broken) is turned through 90 degrees and smaller with an estimated diameter of 2.5mm. The circular part is openwork and very worn but appears to depict an animal with head turned backwards and body in C-curve, nose and tail touching, and possibly eight legs radiating to the circular edge encompassing the design, and a big pointed-oval eye (sugestive of Ringerike style?). Slightly off-centre (between the curve of the body) is an openwork round (4mm diameter) and a further nine openwork shapes (one of which has not gone all the way through on both sides) are created between the ?legs, head, tail. It is unclear which side is the reverse as both could be front and back equally. One side has more definition, the legs being more round. The other side however has what appears to be ?relief decoration/ incised decoration, defining a big eye, a mouth and horizontal lines across the body, although it is very flat. As it is unclear what this object might be, it is hard to date. On its (admittedly worn) style it could be late Saxon, and possibly a harness pendant, or even Roman. Equally possible is a post medieval date. |
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Depicted place | (County of findspot) Wiltshire | ||
Date | between 950 and 1066 | ||
Accession number |
FindID: 58719 Old ref: WILT-79F771 Filename: USodd.jpg |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/16045 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/16045/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/58719 |
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