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Description: | A cast copper alloy mount in the form of a wolf's head, with traces of gilding remaining. The rivet has a circular hollow on the reverse containing the stem of a separate circular-sectioned rivet and a sheet rove (or see below). The head of the rivet is visible on the top of the mount.
The upper side is moulded in the form of a wolf's head with a protruding muzzle and sunken circular eyes to the side of it. The nose and mouth are marked by grooves cut in the side of the muzzle. The face is separated from the rest of the head by a chevron of grooves and the top of the head has an incised cross-hatched pattern. The small pointed oval ears are flat to the side of the head. The back of the head is slightly pointed.
An excavated parallel from Tattenhoe (Mills in Ivens et al. 1995, 351 fig. 153 no. 64) has a pendent loop attached from a U-shaped sheet loop on the rivet. The 'rove' in the above description may instead be a fragment of such a loop. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Ghey, Eleanor - British Museum | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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