The text panel accompanying the plate states:
PLATE XI.
1. A BRONZE sacrificial Axe, cast in the form of a bull bound for sacrifice; it has a socket into which a short handle has been inserted. A similar axe, with the bone handle still in the socket, was also exhibited at Leeds.* (In the margin there is a pencil annotation saying 'said to have been found in England. Cat no 1801 p103.) 2. A Merovingian bronze Buckle and Pendant, being the mounts of a waist belt or girdle, complete. The detached quadrangular piece at the top, and the corresponding portion beneath, affixed to the buckle, are double folds of metal which received the ends of the girdle, to which they were secured by rivets at the corners. It is elaborately ornamented with scrolls and angular patterns in high relief, among which may be distinguished the Greek fret or key pattern; the ends are chased to imitate fringe; the crosspiece to which the two tongues are attached, as well as the pins, terminate in animals' heads. The whole have originally been gilt, but they are now covered with a light green patina. The two rings wee firmly secured to the belt by rivets, and, instead of passing the end of the belt itself through the loop (as in ordinary cases), the rings alone were placed on the tongues, and the long end hung down beneath the buckle, leaving the whole of the ornament visible. Found in a tumulus near Cologne.
Both the above are from the Collection of W. H. Forman, Esq.
* The symbol introduced on the blade of this axe, under the body of the bull, occurs on a stone tablet found near Tanner Row, in York, A.D. 1770, and now preserved in the York Museum, bearing the following inscription:
DEO SANCTO S E R A P I TEMPLUM.A.SO LO FECIT CL.HIERONY MIANUS.LEG LEG.VI.VIC
This is part of the Volume: AL2029 Album of photographs of archaeological finds displayed at the National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds in 1868; within the Collection: WXC01 Photographically illustrated book written by William Chaffers of archaeological finds displayed at an exhibition in Leeds in 1868
Source: Historic England Archive
Photographer: Cundall & Fleming
Archaeology, Art And Design, Exhibition
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