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Description: | Late Saxon Urnes-style furniture fitting or harness mount, worn and corroded cast openwork, decorated with an elaborate sinuous dragon-like beast in combat with a snake. The head of the beast faces left with open curling beak-like mouth, curved neck and horizontal body at the base of the sub-rectangular plate (33 x 39mm), the remainder of which is filled with beasts tail with trefoil terminal resting behind its curving neck and the interlaced body of the snake in a familiar motif of the Urnes style. Many small holes, two at base broken, no rivets remain. Cf. similar mounts from Brampton (24451) and Mautby (37426), and beasts in combat motif on brooches in Campbell (1980) nos.151 and 502. 11th century. | Subjects: | Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bales, Ellen - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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