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40DB05a
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None, Wendy Scott, 2010-02-04 11:10:16
Title
40DB05a
Description
English: Early Anglo-Saxon gilded copper-alloy mount, 35mm long, 24mm wide and 3mm thick. The object is flat, and in the form of a horned head with a prominent central raised angular nose flanked by raised circular eyes. The face has a long moustache which protrudes slightly out at each side. This sits above a lentoid open mouth and a pointed triangular bearded chin. A raised border separates the face from its hair (or perhaps helmet) which is represented by raised parallel lines. From each side of the upper part of the head emerge curving horns, which taper slightly and meet in the middle above the head. These have birds' head terminals, although one is damaged and incomplete.

The whole object is quite worn and in places the decoration is missing, but it does have traces of gilding all over the surface, which is particulary visible where the horns join. The reverse has three integral circular prongs, one placed behind the chin and one on the base of each horn. The object is in fair condition with a dark brown patina and weighs 5.44g.

The object is almost identical to the one recorded from Letheringsett with Glandford (Medieval Archaeology 2002, page 208, fig. 2C.) which is dated to the seventh century and thought to be a representation of Woden.

Depicted place (County of findspot) Leicestershire
Date between 600 and 700
Accession number
FindID: 191137
Old ref: LEIC-40DB05
Filename: 40DB05a.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/237694
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/237694/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/191137
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