File:671 Early Medieval mount reverse (FindID 108123).jpg

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671 Early Medieval mount reverse.jpg
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Bristol City Council, Kurt Adams, 2005-09-27 15:27:11
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671 Early Medieval mount reverse.jpg
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English: Cast copper alloy unidentified artefact, length 30mm, width 17mm, thickness 8mm. The artefact has a moulded human face on the surface, with a long pointed beard resulting is an ovoid shape. Slender nose an oval eyes in the centre, above is a series of vertical striations and openwork loops representing hair. Below the nose are two lines in the shape of an inverted V that would be a moustache, below this is a horizontal line representing the mouth. The bead gently narrows to a point, this is flanked by openwork loops again representing hair. The reverse has a semicircular horizontal loop one third of the way down.

The loop has a rectangular hole (4mm wide by 3mm) in the centre. There is a concave line (4mmwide) that runs from the top of the piece down just past the loop.

The artefact is slightly worn and the openwork along the edges have been effected by corrosion resulting in the loss of some of the edge. 

Similar artefacts are known from Viking contexts and are thought to be images of either Oden or Thor, as Oden is usually pictured with only one eye it is reasonable to assume that this could be Thor.

Artefacts such as that are dated from the 9th to the 10th century.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Gloucestershire
Date between 800 and 1000
Accession number
FindID: 108123
Old ref: GLO-963026
Filename: 671 Early Medieval mount reverse.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/76852
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/76852/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/108123
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