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Description: | Cast copper alloy openwork mount with Ringerike style decoration. Identified as probably part of a cheek piece from a bridle by Dr Naomi Payne (confirmed by Dr Kevin Leahy). The mount is irregular in shape and incomplete. Both faces are flat. The front face is decorated with Ringerike-style engraved lines around several openings. It is possible that the curving, tapering element along one side (around the largest opening) is the neck and head of an animal. The design is probably contains one or more animals but, as the mount is incomplete and quite worn, it is hard to distinguish more precisely where one element ends and another begins. The back is undecorated and covered with diagonal file marks. Identified by Kevin Leahy as later 10th to 11th century in date. Dimensions: 59.67 x 41.12 x 4.44 mm Weight: 28.84 gReferred to in Thomas et al. 2008, 173; n. 2
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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