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Description: | Portion of ornamented lead stripwork casting, enclosing an iron pin for mounting to a receiving surface. The strip is approximately flat, 2mm thick and about 8-10mm in breadth (variable), and the curving length of 37mm which survives is incomplete, having been broken at both ends. Over some 22mm of the length, the strap is slightly domed in section and bears faint traces of latticework ornament along its upper surface, with pellets or dots between the diagonals of the lattice. This ornament is in-cast and derived from the mould. Near one end the item takes a different form, flattening out and expanding slightly to accommodate an outlined ovate form. This resembled a serpent's head, seen from above, and was pierced for the insertion of two small iron pins in a position corresponding to the eyes of the serpent (if so interpreted.) The pins would serve to attach the mount to a leathern or wooden base. From this outlined ovate section a narrower strip emerges but is almost immediately broken off. Nonetheless it appears that this narrow section, like the neck of the serpent, formed the continuation of the mount, perhaps suggesting a full-circular arrangement like an Ouroboros. The back of the mount, which is coarse and slightly channelled longitudinally, was clearly left rough from the casting. It is not certain that this object is ancient, although it has a creamy lead patination. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Plunkett, Tom - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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