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Description: | Parabolic cast bronze plate with cast ornament on one face, riveted to a second smaller cast bronze plate of darker metal. The main plate originally ended with a rectangular projection which is now replaced by another piece. It is pierced twice for rivets at the apex and has another neat hole by the edge mid-way down one side, this hole has a neat internal edge as if countersunk from the back. The plate carries cast ornament in chip-carved style with a broad border of oblique lines around a sub-triangular panel of neat looped interlace. This is adapted to accomodate a raised plain semi-circle at the base. The front and one long vertical edge are gilded, the corresponding edge is more abraded but traces of gold remain. The back of the piece has been scraped or scored and then deeply grooved across the outer corners to make decorative 'ears'. It has a shelf-like recess at the apex which accomodates the additional element. The second piece is held by two rivets and has a spatulate end tapering to a rectangular collar and then reduces again to a narrower shaft which is broken off. The shaft is rectangualr in section and has moulding on both main faces. In side view the small upper plate tapers to the upper edge and is neatly accomodated in the recess of the decorated plate.
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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