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Description: | Cast copper-alloy and glass mount. Lozengiform, with slightly convex profile. The lower end forms a well-moulded zoomorphic terminal with well-defined curling nostrils, chheks and eyebrows. One of the eyes has a recess at the centre, the other has a setting, which is too corroded to identify. Interlaced moulded motifs extend from the eyebrows on either side around the central element of the mount, terminating in an interlaced knot at the opposite end. The two semi-circular side lugs and the upper end opposite the zoomorphic terminal have circular holes for attachment. There is a central circular recess which contains a plano-convex blue glass setting at the centre. The top of the glass setting protrudes slightly above the copper-alloy border which encloses it. There is a recessed area directly around the glass setting which may have originally been infilled, although no trace of this now survives. Both the upper and lower surfaces are well gilded; much of the gilding survives, except upon the interlacing and other features which stand proud. There is an area of copper-alloy corrosion at the centre, which appears to relate to the central area on the upper surface. Slight iron corrosion around the hole in the upper terminal. | Subjects: | Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Worrell, Sally - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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