Image: Taplow drinking horns

Description: Pair of large drinking horns, found at Taplow, 6th century. British Museum description: "Pair of drinking horns, Anglo-Saxon, late 6th century AD. From the princely burial at Taplow, Buckinghamshire. Made from Aurochs horns with silver-gilt mounts [...] The horns are mounted with bird-headed terminals and panels of silver-gilt foils at the mouth. The lip is protected by a silver-gilt rim binding held by four clips in the form of a Style I human face with high brow and rounded cheeks. Beneath the rim-binding are rectangular foils decorated with a garnet-centred rosette flanked by Style I creatures. The creatures have 'helmeted' heads and raised hands and are similar to those in the triangular mounts below. Each terminal is ornamented with a cast Style II bird head with a simple curling beak and rounded head." Literature: J. Stevens, 'On the remains found in an Anglo-Saxon tumulus at Taplow, Buckinghamshire', Journal of the British Archa-2, 40 (1884), pp. 61-71, plates 1, 11-12 R.L.S. Bruce-Mitford, The Sutton Hoo ship burial-1, vol. 3 (London, The British Museum Press, 1983)
Title: Taplow drinking horns
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