File:Anglo-Saxon zoomorphic pin side (FindID 51974).jpg

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Anglo-Saxon zoomorphic pin side
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Andrew Richardson, 2003-09-10 14:42:59
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Anglo-Saxon zoomorphic pin side
Description
English: Fragment of a silver gilt pin with zoomorphic terminal. The terminal is in the shape of a long-muzzled, tripartite canine head, with round eyes and pricked ears. The long nose is detailed with a rounded tip. The forehead is decorated with three bands divided into short segments. The pin shaft is sub-rectangular in cross-section, with rounded corners; it is bent before the break.

Pins are a well-known dress accessory of the Middle-Saxon period, and they are known to sport a variety of terminals. This type of zoomorphic terminal is fairly widespread, and varies in quality and refinement, sometimes sporting inset eyes of blue glass. A common parallel can be found in the illumination of late 7th/8th century manuscripts, where such heads are often used as terminals to letters or decorations, as for instance in the Lindisfarne Gospels.


Update: Compare WAW-152001 and YORYM-F18D94, which have been dated to the high-medieval period.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Kent
Date between 700 and 800
Accession number
FindID: 51974
Old ref: KENT-F26521
Filename: KENT-F26521b.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/8295
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/8295/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/51974
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