And now for something completely different... Imagine having the time, skill, patience - and most importantly, patronage😺 - to carve an elk antler with complex scrollwork and a dragon
Simon CouplandFor #FindsFriday a richly decorated elk antler, interpreted as a shield, dated to the late 10th/ early 11th C. Supposedly from Louis the Pious's memorial chapel in Metz, but dating from long after his death in 840. Picture mine, from Het jaar 1000 (Leiden) now in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam