08-19-2012, 01:03 PM
That is one ugly piece of kit, but yes, it's what archaeologists tend to call a hackamore (but then get told off for) and which horsey folk then drift off into hours of circumlocution trying to say what it is or is not... so I still call them hackamores. The unique twist is the large winged pendant of a type I have come to associate with mounted Thracian units in Britain (or anywhere else, come to that). It's earlyish (Tiberio-Claudian probably), but I would have thought it would seriously upset the horse having that bouncing up and down on its nose.
So far as I know, it's the first time one of these large pendants has been found in the context of its parent piece of equipment, although we have at least one with the suspension loop still round the neck.
Mike Bishop
So far as I know, it's the first time one of these large pendants has been found in the context of its parent piece of equipment, although we have at least one with the suspension loop still round the neck.
Mike Bishop
