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Description: | Identification supplied by Jim Halliday.
An enamelled, cast copper-alloy, hollow backed pyramid-shaped mount which is rectangular in plan. The top of the pyramid is flattened forming a small rectangle. The four triangular faces of the mount each with its vertical cells of white enamel forming a cross. The raised divisions forming these triangular cells may have been gilded or burnished. The colours of the enamel may have been leached out by ground waters whilst it was in the plough soil and may not appear true as when in its original condition. Measuring: 25mm. x 25mm.x height 8.9mm.
References: Ashmolean Museum Oxford. A summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections (Non ferrous Metals) Arthur McGregor and Ellen Bolick.
A corpus of Anglo-Saxon material from Suffolk, 1998, EAA, p22, 21.23, p137, fig: 21. | Subjects: | Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Andrews-Wilson, Liz - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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