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Collection Item: Pendant

Basic info

Collection
Archaeology
Object name
Pendant
Lucet
Object category
Anglian
Description
Y shaped with animal heads on the sides, incised decoration. Waterman 1959 describe sit as "cut from antler, perforated through the broadest part... obliquely from side to side... [it] bears on one face a double groove, following the outline of the object, filled with hatched lines and similar hatching, crudely cut and lacking a border, on the other. Animal masks, paired in one instance, appear on the sides. These objects are called pendants without prejudice as to their actual use. Evidence of wear at the perforations suggests that they were intended for suspension and the decorated examples may indeed have been worn as ornaments. The distincitive shape, however, suggests that they may have been put to some practical use at the same time..." Possibly a lucet. See YORYM : C668 and YORYM : C667 for similar examples.
Production date start
410
Production date end
866
Period
Anglian

More info

Identification

Object number
YORYM : 1948.619
Number of objects
1
ID
7370

Physical Characteristics

Materials
Antler (material) (Whole)

Find spot

Method
Casual find
Place
York

Production

Technique
Worked