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Description: | Head and shoulders of a copper-alloy mount in the form of a figure with blue champlev?? enamel eyes, holding a stylised book, with apertures (on body) and a stud at the rear of the head for attachment. The mount is worn and corroded but some facial features, as well as the eyes, are visible on the solid oval head. Below the head there is a narrowed and thinned neck which curves out into shoulders. The body is convex with a concave back. The remainder of the body is lost to an old break but half of one attachment hole survives at the break and above it is a raised square cornered shape that is probably a book.
This mount was probably made in the late 12th-13th century AD. On stylistic grounds it would be attributed to the great manufacturing centre of Limoges, France. The figures depicts what is usually described as "saints" or perhaps an "apostles" and were originally attached to caskets or reliquaries, and sometimes crosses. Such mounts have been recovered from a number of prestigious ecclesiastical sites such as Salisbury, London and Winchester. A similar type of mount is illustrated in Saunders (ed), 2001, Medieval Catalogue (vol 3, pages 41-2). The object measures 22.3mm long, 18.7mm wide and 6.5mm thick at the head. The body is 3.7mm thick. The weight is 5.72g. | Subjects: | Casket | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Burnett, Laura - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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