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Description: | Copper-alloy hanging bowl escutcheon, circular, bent with slight damage to outer rim, enamelled decoration of a triskele whose arms each terminate in a trumpet spiral or stylised pelta motif, a right-angled junction is formed where the motif meets the arm of the treskele which encloses a trefoil motif formed from three leaf shapes, with a further leaf shape placed just beyond the angle, there is a bronze dot with three projecting leaf shapes at centre. The enamelled field was originally red but has mostly decayed to yellowy-green. Compare a very similar mount from Barrington, Cambridgeshire, illustrated in Brenan 1991, 179. 7th century. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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