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Description: | A cast copper alloy belt mount in the form of a wolf's head (stylised). Traces of gilding are visible on the surface. The reverse has a circular hollow containing a separate circular-sectioned rivet and sheet rove (or see below). This rivet has a circular head on the top of the mount.
The back of the wolf's head is rounded and the top of the head is decorated with incised cross-hatched lines. A triangular ear is moulded on one side only, with a corresponding V-shaped notch on the other side. The face has a protruding rounded muzzle with deep-set eyes indicated and a groove for a mouth at the end of the muzzle.
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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