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Description: | An unusual incomplete cast copper-alloy vessel mount most likely to be from a medieval bowl/laver. This mount is in the shape of a womans head. It measures 54mm in total height, 32mm in width and 26mm in thickness. The head is three dimensional and roughly rectangular in shape the eyes are pointed oval in shape and below moulded eyebrows, the nose projects and has a square flattened end. The mouth is represented by a small transverse pointed oval shaped indentation. The tip of the rounded chin juts forward slightly. The face is framed down its sides by hair, which is arranged with a central parting and gathered forward, it has transverse wavy grooves across the top of the head and transverse grooves across the gathered hair at the sides of the head. The gathered oblong protrusions of hair at the side of the head terminate just above the level of the chin. This hairstyle is typically medieval in style and helps to date this mount to the medieval period. The back face of the head is rounded and has a tapering circular indentation in its centre, measuring 14mm in diameter tapering to 7mm in diameter at its base, it is 11mm in depth. There are traces of a white possible solder or cement in the base of this indentation and from parallels it is clear that one end of a handle fitted into this hole and the other would have slotted into the hole in another parallel identical mount. On the front face the neck is roughly circular in cross-section and measures circa 14mm in diameter, it is c10mm in length. The neck flares into a rounded part, 35mm in width, with a deep diagonal groove at either edge of the top face. There is an old break along its inner edge, this inner or back face is flat and slopes away from the head a t a circa 45 degree angle, this face is also slightly curvilinear and as it slopes downwards narrows to c4mm in thickness, this mount was originally an integral part of a vessel, of which this thinner edge is part. This mount therefore would have been placed on one of the edges of a vessel rim opposite an identical mount, a handle lug would have been suspended between them, with either terminal slotted into the circular indentations.
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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