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View full screenScabbard chape of silver with zoomorphic terminals with glass insets for eyes, Pictish, from St Ninian's Isle, 8th century
X.FC 283
8th century
Pictish
Silver; zoomorphic terminals, the heads decorated with spirals, fluted snouts and protruding tongues, glass insets for eyes; curved band on one side with deep hatching forming multiple triangles, the other having two panels in chip-carving technique separated by a cross decorated with spirals, each panel containing a pair of interlocked animals; the crest with Greek key pattern on one side, a series of double curves and rough key pattern on the other
St Ninian's Isle, Shetland, Scotland, Northern Europe
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