School/style: Mammen style
Cultures/periods: Viking (Late Viking Period)
Found/Acquired: Europe: British Isles: England: Thames, River
Materials: Bone
Bone plaque or button, circular, depicting a man (head absent) with legs turned upward and connected to the body by two intertwined animals; a hole in the back.
Graham-Campbell 1980.
Round bone plaque or button, flat convex section, broken at the top, where the front originally extended upward in the shape of a human head. The front is carved in relief in a simple frame. The reverse is partially hollowed and laterally perforated to form a togle-like mount. The ornament consists of a man with his legs raised so that his feet are under his armpits. His body is double contoured and filled with granulation; the shoulders and thighs are marked with spirals. The head is broken off; only the tip of the beard is preserved. Two snakes are intertwined with his limbs and waist.