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Description: | Iron Age mount? 26mm long, 23mm high and 20mm wide. The objects weighs 27.1 grams and has an even green patina. It is solid cast fitting in the form of a horned animal? head. On each side of the head is a sunken eye, with a bulbous protrusion which may represent a cheek. Also on each side is a snapped off circular protrusion which appears to represent horns as they are placed above the eyes. The area that would have shown the mouth is missing. The top of the 'head is flat and rounded, it is decorated with three circular recesses which are surrounded by a border of dotted lines. The neck is slim and rectangular and has a slit socket at the back. There is a boss in a ring on each side which might be a rivet and outside this (towards the back edge) is a small iron rivet. The rivet is holding further copper alloy within the socket. The cheeks are decorated with delicately scored lines which curves around its form, and the portion near the 'blade' also has curvilinear decoration, typical of iron Age art. The plain underside is decorated with a simple incised rectangular border. The object may represent a knife handle or some sort of complicated mount. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Scott, Wendy - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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