A (simplified) leather chamfron based on finds from Vindolanda (UK). The chamfron is a piece of protection for the horses head. Several versions were known in the Roman period, ranging from basic eye-protections (first century examples like the finds from Pompeii, Italy) to highly decorated full face protectors in the ‘sports equipment/hippica gymnasia’ style found along the straubing hoard. In the UK several leather examples have been found, but the brass eye-inserts are known from other regions as well.
This piece further has been found without the eye-protectors and this eye protector is based on a Dutch find, now in the Rijksmuseum van oudheden, in Leiden, the Netherlands.
