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Description: | Mount, possibly Anglo-Saxon in date. The main body of the object has been cast from copper alloy and is circular in shape. The front retains part of the decorated silver foil which once covered it. This would have been attached using a thin layer of solder, which appears to have been applied in such as way as to create the design in relief in the foil. The design (both foil and solder) is not well preserved, but appears to have consisted of (a) a plain 6mm wide circular band around the edge of the object, (b) a circle of beading within this, about 1mm wide, (c) eight clockwise running spiral motifs, which link to (d) two narrow concentric squares of beading, each less than 1mm wide, enclosing an area 8.5mm across. There is no trace of any further decoration within this square. The back is flat and undecorated with four circular-sectioned rivets, which are arranged close to the edge of the mount to form a quadrangle.
The object is similar in size and style to LEIC-729A02, a copper alloy mount with gold foil decoration from Whissendine, Leicestershire, which has a suggested date of between 500 and 800 AD. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Payne, Naomi - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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