Anglo-Saxon Gilt Drinking Horn Terminal

LATER 8TH CENTURY AD

1 1/4" (8.01 grams, 32mm).

A silver-gilt funicular mount, probably the terminal from a drinking horn, with bilinear border and three panels of dense chip-carved interlace framing slender standing beasts; butt jointed along the long edge.

Provenance

Found Cranfield, Bedfordshire, UK, 2013.

Published

Recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme with reference number BE-E811E5; accompanied by a print out of the PAS report.

Literature

Disclaimed under the Treasure Act, reference number 2013 T672.

CONDITION

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LOT 0548

Anglo-Saxon Gilt Drinking Horn Terminal

Sold for (Inc. bp): £6,820

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