Viking Silver-Gilt Drinking Horn Terminal

CIRCA 7TH-9TH CENTURY A.D.

2 in. (14.5 grams, 50 mm).

Comprising a tapering sleeve and stylised bird-head with scrolled beak and angled bar above the eye; pierced in two places. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Acquired in the early 1970s.
Ex property of a Surrey, UK, collector.

Literature

Cf. the mount shows stylistic parallels with PAS record no.LEIC-1DCF5E; for similarly shaped drinking horns with eagle design, see the drinking horm from Taplow burial mound, British Musuem, museum number 1883,1214.19.

Footnotes

The decorative style of the terminal bears resemblance to the Trewhiddle style, dated to the ninth to early tenth centuries, although it seems a more simplified version of the Taplow Horn terminals. Zoomorphic terminals on Trewhiddle style strap ends bear very similar circular ears containing chevron motifs, and panels of decoration on the brow.

CONDITION

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