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Horncastle boar's head

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eyes. The fragment is 40 mm (1.6 in) long, and semi-naturalistic in style. The head is elongated, capped by a prominent mane dividing the skull, and terminates in a blunt snout, defined by three grooved and gilded lines. On each side above the snout are more grooved and gilded lines
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The boar is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and dates from the first half of the seventh century AD. Although its original purpose cannot be conclusively determined, the style and size of the boar suggests that it formed the terminal of a helmet crest. Figural terminals adorn the crests of many
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in the sixth through eleventh centuries AD. Such helmets are characterised by a rounded cap and usually a prominent nose-to-nape crest, from which the name of the helmet type derives and at one end of which the Horncastle boar was probably once attached.
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When the fragment was found it was filled with soil and plant roots. Three rivets on the underside—one near the mouth, two at the opposite end—would have served to attach it to a larger object, most likely a helmet.
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examples three centuries later, and Roman boars in the fourth century AD. They probably represent a fused tradition of European and Mediterranean cultures. The boar is said to have been sacred to a
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The eyebrow terminals on the Sutton Hoo helmet are clearly boars, but less clearly on the York helmet, where the teeth are more similar to those of
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Evans, Angela C. (October 2004). "Horncastle, Lincolnshire: Anglo-Saxon parcel-gilt terminal in the form of a boar's head (2002 T119) (fig. 41)".
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from Sweden, made some five hundred years later. Though the Romans also included the boar in their stable of symbols—four
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The boar's head terminal is one of several representations of the animal on contemporaneous helmets. Boars surmount the
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Heritage Service Purchase Fund. As of 2024, the fragment is on display at Lincoln Museum alongside a variety of
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Taken in context, the boar would probably have adorned an early model of the "crested helmets" known in
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poet makes this clear, writing that boar symbols on helmets kept watch over the warriors wearing them.
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wore boar symbols in battle to invoke the protection of a mother goddess, and in the Anglo-Saxon epic
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The fragment represents a boar's head. It is hollow, with a shell made of silver, parts of which are
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on either side of the skull, divided by a mane along the centre. The boar's eyes are formed from
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representing the mouth, which includes pointed tusks. The boar's two small eyes are formed with
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The Cult of Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England: The Transition from Paganism to Christianity
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in Lincolnshire, England. It was discovered by a Mr D. Turner, who was searching with a
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was an important symbol in prehistoric Europe, where, according to the archaeologist
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examples, or at the ends of the eyebrows, as on those from Sutton Hoo and perhaps
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The bottom of the fragment, showing three rivets and still filled with dirt
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Purchase Grant Fund, Friends of Lincoln Museum & Art Gallery, and the
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associating boars with both deities and protection. The Roman historian
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Boar-crested helmets are depicted on the turn-of-the-millennium
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helmets. These evidence a thousand-years-long tradition in
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The fragment is 40 mm (1.6 in) long and made of
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Old English available in the Klaeber text, published as
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work with a double collar. Two gilded eyebrows, cast in
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wore boar symbols in battle to invoke her protection.
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Manchester: Manchester University Press. 1669: 1448: 1434: 1426: 31: 337:terminal at either end, and the one from 1376:The Anglian Helmet from 16–22 Coppergate 260:The fragment was found on 1 May 2002 in 1338:"Terminal in the form of a boar's head" 869: 854: 842: 830: 818: 774: 762: 750: 726: 714: 699: 687: 502: 478: 917: 738: 663: 1125:(2008). "The Boar on the Helmet". In 893: 881: 801: 789: 627: 590: 530: 329:contemporaneous helmets, such as the 7: 1284:The Agricola and Germania of Tacitus 1196:Northamptonshire Archaeology Reports 1393:from the original on 21 March 2024. 991:. Boston: D.C. Heath & Company. 905: 402:examples in the fourth century BC, 145:—where it is on permanent display. 117:that probably was once part of the 988:Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg 432:, discovered in Denmark, and on a 414:Europe, while the Roman historian 283:The acquisition was funded by the 25: 121:. 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Index

Horncastle helmet fragment
Colour photograph of the Horncastle boar's head
Silver
gold
garnets
Horncastle
Lincoln Museum
Lincoln
Anglo-Saxon
boar
crest of a helmet
metal detectorist
Horncastle
Lincolnshire
found treasure
Lincoln
Lincoln Museum
silver
quadruped
garnet
gilded
Benty Grange
Wollaston
Sutton Hoo
York
Germanic paganism
Tacitus
Baltic
Aesti
Beowulf

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