rein-holder(?)
- Museum number
- 1891,1021.92
- Description
-
Iron staple; circular section shank with double looped head; two iron rings suspended from each; possibly for guiding reins.
- Production date
- 9thC-10thC
- Dimensions
-
Length: 13.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Comment from Kidd, Haith & Ager 'Summary Catalogue' (draft MS)
Provenance:
Ofigsbø (Aafisbø), Lom sn., Oppland, Norway; with other objects in a cairn (COCKS A.H. 1891. Catalogue of the Scandinavian Exhibition of Antiquities and other objects collected by Alfred Heneage Cocks, on view at the Royal Archaeological Institute, June 1891, 2nd ed. London, cat. no. 53)
Published:
SMITH R.A. 1923. A Guide to the Anglo-Saxon and Foreign Teutonic Antiquities in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities. London, p. 160
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1891,1021.92
