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Description: | A late Early Medieval or early Medieval copper alloy zoomorphic mount, possibly from a strap or horse harness. Viewed from the front in plan, the mount has a trifoliate terminal at the top, with the domed head of an iron rivet visible within the central fleur. Below the trifoliate terminal, the mount is broadly oval in plan and convex, and resembles the head of an animal. The animal has a large forehead, at about the centre of which is the head of a second iron rivet. Two oval perforations define the eyes of the animal, below which cheeks are suggested by curved projections at the perimeter of the face. There is a gentle horizontal ridge between the eyes which continues to the base of the mount, forming a snout, which is triangular in section. The oval portion of the mount is concave on the reverse. The reverse is plain, with the incomplete stubs of the two rivets showing. In profile, the mount has a convex front and a slightly curved reverse.
The mount has green/brown pitted surface, with areas of iron corrosion visible around the rivets (particularly around the upper rivet on the front of the mount, and the lower rivet on the reverse of the mount). The mount is 33.3mm long, 14.9mm wide across the trifoliate design, and 7.5mm thick at the point of the lower rivet. The mount weighs 7.76g.
The mount is similar to object reference LIN-EF4B51 recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) database. It also shares a common basic form of the Urnes style mount identified by Leahy in ??The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Lindsey?? (2007, figure 75, number 7). The mount recorded here is likely to be 11th century in date (Kevin Leahy, pers. comm.). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Slarke, Duncan - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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