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Description: | Medieval figurine; cast copper alloy religious figurine of the ??limoge?? type. The figurine dates to the 12th or 13th century and was presumably originally attached to a cross or reliquary casket. It has a three-dimensional head, roughly moulded with a little knop for a nose and discs of blue champlev?? enamel for the eyes. The body is a flat sheet of copper alloy, roughly arch-shaped and moulded on the front face with lines forming geometric panels. There are two circular rivet holes in the centre, one near the top of the plate and the other near the bottom. The plate is currently folded over on itself at the point of the lower rivet hole, presumably as the result of being buried.
Length (as bent) 58.8mm, approximate length if straightened 82mm, width 24.7mm, thickness (at head) 9.3mm, thickness (plate) 1.1mm, weight 16.70g
Ref: Saunders (ed.) ??Salisbury Medieval Catalogue??, part 3 (pp. 39-42, fig.8)
See also similar style mounts already recorded on the database, such as BH-A05BD8 and WILT-1C1186. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rohde, Anja | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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