Record ID: DOR-37F1E0
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy bridle boss. The boss is circular and domed. The dome is openwork with the reserve in the form of a moulded fleur de lis with four apertures around it. There is a moulded rope-pattern collar around the base of the dome.The flanged, outer frame of the boss is decorated with groups of moulded concentric crescents. The outer edge of the mount is scalloped. There are two attachment holes set across the diameter of the mount (at 12 and 6 o'clock in relation to the fleur de lis). One retains a dome-headed copper alloy rivet with iron corrosion at the rear. The other is broke…
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2022
Last updated: Thursday 16th June 2022
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Record ID: WILT-FC8D55
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of copper alloy, probably part of a bridle fitting or stirrup terminal, dating to c. AD 1000-1100. The fragment is sub-rectangular is cross section an irregular in plan; it is truncated by an old break at one end from which it expands in width and then curves very slightly and birfurcates, with breaks at 1 o'clock and 3 o'clock. The space in between the breaks is concave. Two low knops expand from behind the birfurcation. A small section of engraved ringerike or urnes-derived decoration survives on one face. The object measures 36.3mm in length, 14.1mm in width, 4.8mm …
Created on: Thursday 26th November 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 27th January 2021
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Record ID: BERK-523AE6
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy bridle fitting (cheek-piece) of late Early-medieval date. The surviving fragment is broadly triangular in plan with the remains of an open circle cutting the wide wedge of the triangle. At the apex of the triganle is a moulded animal's head set perpendicular to the main object. The head has an elongated snout, eyes on the side of its head and ears lying flat on its head. The main object is decorated with three panels of rocker-arm patterning. The underside of the object is hollowed, apart from under the animal's head. This object is unusual and an exact…
Created on: Tuesday 15th July 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd July 2014
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Record ID: SOMDOR1620
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
13 bridle bosses or other horse harness decorations All of the same design -one is incomplete. Shield-shaped (square) mount with central shield-shaped boss. Cast decoration in a floral design (a pattern of a sexfoils alternating with foliate curlicues and a single bell-shaped flower at the centre top) in a band around the edge. The boss is a squared shield with a pointed base and a slight v-shaped recess in the top edge. The boss is solid and undecorated. The back surface is irregular and has the remnants if four evenly spaced fixings (two on each side).
Created on: Tuesday 3rd December 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOMDOR1619
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Circular mount with cone-shaped central boss. Cast decoration in a floral design (a pattern of a sexfoil and three quatrefoils repeated with swags below the quatrefoils) in a band around the edge. The boss is decorated with an octagonal moulding with a pellet at each apex. The boss is solid. The back surface is irregular and has the remnants if two fixings.
Created on: Tuesday 26th November 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOMDOR1040
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Cast lead bridle boss. Broken and incomplete. Originally circular. Outer band with alternate moulded oval bosses and foliate swags. Inside this, a concentric groove. Umbonate centre with plain outer band. Centre decorated with a rope pattern band, inner circle is plain. Concave back with two iron fixing spikes. Date: Post Medieval - c. 1700 - 1900 Diameter: 58 mm
Created on: Monday 9th July 2001
Last updated: Friday 9th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'DORSET PENTRIDGE', grid reference and parish protected.