Basic info

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Trial piece

Object category

Anglian

Description

Trial piece with Trewhiddle style animals. Waterman 1959 describes it: "Two fine guide lines have been scribed parallel to the natural edge of the bone, within which is engraved a frieze of animals, partially filled out by a tangle of interface; two confronted beasts, drawn to a smaller scale, and further interlacings appear below. The animals of the frieze are, with one exception, shown crouching or with humped hind-quarters, with back-turned heads and conventionalized paws; one beast grasps its tail within its jaws, the tail of another terminates in a leaf bud and a pendant tri-lobed leaf occupies the space between the hind-quarters of two of the animals. The animal forms may be compared with those that appear in the late Saxon art style sometimes called after Trewhiddle (Cormwall) although the panelled treatment of the Trewhiddle and allied finds is absent on the York piece; a date in the second half of the ninth century for the carving on the York bone may be suggested."

Production date start

410

Production date end

866

Period

Anglian