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Description: | An enamelled copper-alloy mount. Steven Ashley (pers. comm.) suggests a date of late 13th to 15th century AD. For a parallel on the PAS database, see NCL-E653D3 (from Humberside). The Solomon's seal motif is commonly seen on medieval finds and was thought to have magical apotropaic properties (Egan and Pritchard 1991: 203).
The mount is circular in plan and has a highly decorated upper surface. Central to the design is the forward-facing head of an animal (possibly a lion) which lies at the centre of a six-pointed star/hexagram. The head and the interweaving arms of the cross are depicted in relief; the recessed fields of the cross, the areas surrounding the head and the animal's facial features contain remnants of a red enamel infil. Extending outwards from the outer edge of each cross arm is a foliate ornamentation. The star design is surrounded by a foliate ring, outside this is a shallow groove containing gilding and at the edge of the mount is a (probably) plain rim. At the centre of the reverse of the mount is an incomplete integral rivet.
The mount measures 34.2mm in diameter, 3.9mm thick and weighs 19.51g. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Watters, Julian - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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