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Description: | Copper alloy section of decorated strip dating to the late Anglo-Saxon period (possibly around the 9th - 10th century). The function of this mount is unclear but it may be part of the binding for a box or book. The piece is rectangular and is broken at one end. At the other end the piece terminates with a zoomorphic animal head with a circular rivet hole at the very end. Above the rivet hole there are animal eyes. The rest of the mount has a long central panel decorated with a single line of ring and dot motifs. The panel of decoration is broken about two thirds of the way up the object for another rivet hole. The back of the mount is flat and undecorated. It weighs 6.61g and measures 65.5mm in length, 5.87mm in width and 1.89mm in thickness.
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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