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Description: | Medieval gilt copper alloy openwork mount, possibly from furniture, horizontal tongue-shaped plate, straight end with two broken rivet-holes, cast half-round lion passant guardant, head fully round and wearing a possible headdress with central triangular depression, and tail extending onto openwork foliate decoration, trefoil terminal pierced by single rivet-hole, concave hollowed reverse, 47 x 15mm. Of similar feel to an openwork mount with an angel from a vessel or censer cover from Postwick (HER 38152). 12th century. | 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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