Boss, for one of the cheek-pieces of a horse bit, made of dark bronze, circular, the raised centre spirally fluted or whorled, and coming to a point; undulating border, the alternate facets of both the whorl and the border are decorated with scrolls (see also A399).
A similar boss was in the collection of the antiquarian Victor Gay (Gay, Glossaire Archéologique, p. 178).
16th century
Bronze
A398
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