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Description: | A copper-alloy box fitting, which would have reinforced the corner of a box. It is triangular in shape measuring 58mm in length and 22mm in width. The top face is decorated with relief decoration which is no longer clear, at the widest end an oval face, possibly humanoid or a lions face, is present with a long nose and what may possibly be an ear to one side of the head. Surrounding this face there are downwardly sloping diagonal lines which may be either hair or a mane of some kind. Above the mysterious face there is further decoration but what it is meant to represent is unclear, there seems to be a central longditudinal line with various transverse lines protruding from it. All of the relief decoration is contained within a circumference groove that runs close to the edge of the top face. One of the long edges and the edge behind the head have vertical sides projecting at right angles down from the top face, they are 13mm in depth and would have fitted inside the box. The side along the long edge has two rectangular protrusions near to either end. This box fitting is likely to be post-medieval in date as what can be seen of the decoration appears to be rennaissance in style.
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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