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Description: | Incomplete copper-alloy mount. It consists of an almost-rectilinear piece of copper alloy, 10 mm wide, with one end broken off; the other end has an off-centre integral rivet on the reverse. The mount is decorated with fine transverse wavy lines; although these now stand proud of the corroded surface, they may originally have been engraved. They cannot be seen to extend beyond the left-hand half of the mount (as you look at it with the broken end at the bottom); at the bottom right-hand end there appears to be a tiny chevron. The rivet is large (10.5 mm long with the thickness of the mount added) and reminiscent of those on heraldic shield-shaped studs. If this mount is heraldic, firstly the shield is very long and thin, and flimsy, secondly the charge (barry wavy impaled with a design ending at the bottom with a small chevron) is unusually detailed for a heraldic stud.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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