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Early medieval bridle piece
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Suffolk County Council, Faye Minter, 2007-07-10 11:45:29
Title
Early medieval bridle piece
Description
English: An incomplete copper-alloy Anglo-Scandinavian or early medieval period cheekpiece. Cheekpieces have flat plates with centrally-placed projecting arms for attachment to a leather harness strap, they are used in pairs and each is pierced with a round hole through which the ends of the jointed iron bit projected. This example is part of a Williams type 1 cheekpiece (Williams 2007, unpublished).

Type 1 cheekpieces plates are decorated with engraved symmetrical strip-like creatures of late Viking Ringerike inspiration, their heads and bodies creating areas of openwork on each plate. One openwork side of this cheekpiece survives, and part of the central perforation for the bit also survives.

This incomplete example is oval in shape, 41.27mm in by 36.28mm externally and 18.95mm by 16.66mm internally. The copper-alloy has a reddish colour as do many objects of this date. The front face has an engraved thin body which curves into a head with an oval shaped eye, the engraved lines appear to have the remains of niello within them.

This example is very similar to a complete cheekpiece from Witcombe area, Gloucs. Which also has an inwards facing animal engraved on either side which curves around an openwork hole.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Suffolk
Date between 1000 and 1100
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1000-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1100-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 185675
Old ref: SF-BC3504
Filename: COLSF-BC3504.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/143744
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/143744/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/185675
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