Record ID: DENO-55E157
Object type: DRINKING HORN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete, copper alloy early medieval (Anglo Saxon) drinking horn terminal. The terminal is hollow and circular in plan with an internal attachment bar stretching across the diameter of the opening. The terminal tapers slightly from a thick collar at the opening to a narrower collar at the head - the edges of this section are faceted (6 sides, possibly more). The head of the terminal is zoomorphic and in profile, with a pronounced eye and brow, straight protruding snout and four circular perforations along the mouth, probably indicating teeth. The eye is recessed, with a centr…
Created on: Thursday 13th August 2020
Last updated: Thursday 3rd September 2020
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Record ID: LON-0B6BB8
Object type: DRINKING HORN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval (Anglo Saxon) to Medieval copper alloy zoomorphic, socketed drinking horn terminal dating from 11th-14th century. The body of the terminal is hollow and conical with two rivet holes just below the opening, running down the spine of the terminal is a line of around 20 annulets. The end of the terminal has been decoratively cast to form a gryphon (griffin) or mythical beast. During the Medieval period the drinking horn began to be associated with griffins and is often referred to as Greifenklauen "because, in popular imagination, the colossal mythical griffin or grypho…
Created on: Friday 13th October 2017
Last updated: Monday 7th January 2019
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Record ID: ESS-979D89
Object type: DRINKING HORN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy terminal, probably from a drinking horn, in the form of a bird's head. The item is triangular in plan, tapering to a hooked point which forms the 'beak'. The beak features a moulded ridge running the length and defining the upper and lower beak. There is also moulded relief detailing on the head with an 'S' shaped ridge rising from the top of the beak. The eyes are formed for two small depressions on either side of the head which have been inlaid with black enamel. Beyond the head and toward the base of the mount there is a section of moulded reticulate de…
Created on: Wednesday 15th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 10th May 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hatfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-EFCF31
Object type: DRINKING HORN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval (Anglo Saxon) copper alloy drinking horn terminal dating to the 8th century. The body of the terminal is hollow and conical with four rivet holes; two just below the open end, one near the base and one through the base. One of the rivet holes looks irregular and might be a later modification. There is a band of interlace pattern just below the open end, forming a border. This interlace pattern has been chip-carved creating pyramid-shaped cells which originally may have contained an inlaid material, however no inlay survives now. The interlace pattern is interrup…
Created on: Tuesday 11th September 2012
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2013
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Record ID: WILT-9FFDA7
Object type: DRINKING HORN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval (Romanesque) to 14th century (1100-1400) copper-alloy possible terminal from a drinking horn. It is curving in profile, both upwards and slightly to one side, measuring 62.04mm in length and weighing 21.95g. The terminal comprises a hollow conical socket terminating in a zoomorphic head, most likely a dragon or other mythical creature. At the open end of the socket (13.09x12.46mm 'in diameter', internal 10.49x10.19mm) are four rivet holes for attachment purposes, c.1.4mm in diameter. The socket is plain until the area just before the curve and running up to the hea…
Created on: Wednesday 21st March 2012
Last updated: Monday 17th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Allington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-F0DD46
Object type: DRINKING HORN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Anglo-Scandinavian cast copper-alloy terminal probably from a drinking horn dating to the eleventh century. The terminal has a hollow conical socket with three rivet holes at the attachment end. The socket is ribbed. At the top of the socket is an integral animal head shown in three dimension. The head is large, solid and in the form of a mythical creature, most likely a dragon. The head is slender, broadly D-shaped in cross-section and extends either side of the socket. The head is ribbed and the eye sockets are deeply faceted. The beast has pointed oval eyes with a band of moulde…
Created on: Friday 8th April 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 4th May 2011
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Record ID: SF-882904
Object type: DRINKING HORN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An Iron Age probable drinking horn mount. The mount is incomplete and cast copper-alloy, it measures 78.24mm in total length. It consists of a curving hollow shaft or socket, which has a flaring open terminal and at its other end a bovine head. One face of the object is incomplete, there are fragments missing at the open socket end and from the base of the neck of the bovine head, these breaks are all worn and appear to be old. The mount has a mid green patina but there are patches of light green corrosive products visible as well as some more recent abrasions and marks, w…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd May 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 13th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Needham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-43B873
Object type: DRINKING HORN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gilt copper alloy terminal from an Anglo-Saxon drinking horn. The terminal is oval in cross section and roughly rectangular in plan, slightly tapering to a scroll-like tip. At the attachment end the terminal splays into three arms, one of which has a rivet hole however the other two are incomplete. Just before the splayed arms the mount has a deep channel running around the body with two smaller bands to either side. The channel and the bands have been gilded. On the crest of the body there is a moulded gilt animal face looking down towards the tip of the mount. The face has pell…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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