Staffordshire hoard seahorse (UEB uncontracted)
Synopsis
This page shows an image of a gold seahorse. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. There is a side view of the seahorse facing to the right in the centre left of the page and a detail of the decoration in the bottom right of the page in an image border. The seahorse is flat with extremely fine filigree decorations made from very thin gold wire. The seahorse's head is in the top centre of the page. An ear sticks up with an eye down from it. The snout goes down and right. The body curves left, down and right to a point. It then goes down and left again. It curves to the right ending in a damaged edge where some part appears missing. A small section to the bottom left could perhaps be a fin which has a hole in it. Five wires run down the body, one along the left edge, one along the right edge and three spaced down the middle dividing the body into four strips. The strips are decorated with tiny wire circular spirals. The detail shows the spiral patterns. The spirals are in linked pairs so that one spiral flows into the other half. Most of the spirals run in a clockwise direction but one of the central strips has anti-clockwise spirals. The seahorse is quite small, only 41 x 18.5 mm in size. Three of the spirals together are the size of a grain of rice!
Book details
- Author:
- Rnib
- ISBN:
- N/A
- Publisher:
- RNIB
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- No
- Date of addition:
- 2017-05-10
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2011
- Copyright by:
- RNIB
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
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English
- Categories:
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History
