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Description: | Hanging bowl escutcheon with long narrow hook, terminal missing. Roughly opposite the hook a small part of the perimeter of the disc is missing, at a point where it departs from the strictly circular. Was the disc (diam. 30mm) originally tear-shaped or just imperfect? The design, which is delineated in upstanding metal lines on a red enamel ground, consists of a central equal-armed cross, and at the end of each arm the lines continuing to form one flattened pelta & outside that another, larger pelta. Two concentric rings of metal enclose the above, the outer ring being the perimeter of the disc. The design is set several degrees off the vertical as defined by the hook.
The combination of cross-arm surmounted by two peltas resembles a stack of two mushrooms viewed from the side.
The front is slightly convex, the reverse correspondingly concave. Tooling marks are visible over the reverse & there is a well-defined flat rib around the edge.
No close parallel has been found, but two examples (Market Rasen, Lincolnshire & Manton Common, Humberside) combine a central cross & surrounding peltas (Brenan B.A.R. 220 (1991), 247 & 252. 7th century. | Subjects: | escutcheon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Hinds, Katie - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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