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Description: | Very slightly tapering piece of copper-alloy strip, 12 mm wide at one end and 11 mm wide at the other. Each long edge is bent slightly upwards to form a border to either side of a zone of engraved decoration. This consists of an animal in profile looking to the left, with dog-like head, rounded body, long curving tail and two legs, and a plant in front of the animal with two stems each ending in a trefoil leaf. The head has pointed ears, eyes, eyebrows and a well-drawn nose and mouth; the back is rounded and there are contour lines indicating the left shoulder. The two legs both appear to be front legs, and the animal's right leg has a just-visible raised forepaw. The tail is just a narrowing and lengthening of the body, and may possibly end in a third trefoil visible behind the animal. The background, around the animal and leaves, is covered with fine oblique lines, not all of which are parallel; these also cross the raised forepaw. On the reverse is a good deal of grey decayed solder. The surviving length of the strip is 58 mm. It is uncertain what this strip may have been mounted on, but the art dates it to the medieval period. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Geake, Helen - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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