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Description: | A copper-alloy mount in the shape of a fish, 55mm in length and 16mm in width at its widest point. The front face is convex, the head of the fish terminates with open lips and with what appears to be a tongue inbetween them. The head then curves upwards and behind the lips there is a semi-circular protrusion, on the top of the head, below this there are two transverse grooves. Inbetween the first transverse groove and the lips of the fish there is a ring and dot decoration 4mm in diameter, four similar decorations occur after the second transverse groove on the body, three in a vertical row and one next the middle ring of this row. The body of the fish then swells into a oval shape, 23mm in length, which tapers into the fish's tail, there is a small triangular-shaped fin at the base of the start of the tail. The tail curves upwards bending backwards over the fish's back and terminates in a triangular-shaped fin, 13mm in length and17mm in width, with longditudinal grooves running down it. The back face of the fish is concave and undecorated. This fish is likely to be Roman in date and parallels have been found in Germany, which have been described as box fittings or mounts (H.Menzel 1986, 151 and 134, No. 501, 502 and 394). | Subjects: | Mount | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Minter, Faye - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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