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Description: | Early Anglo-Saxon mount, possibly from the apex of a shield boss. It is a flat copper-alloy disc with gilded front face decorated in "chip carved" counter-relief, with five Style I three-toed limbs radiating from a flat boss. On the reverse there are traces of solder in one area near the edge. The radiating limb motif is to be found on 6th-century saucer brooches. Whatever was fixed to the back, this object cannot have been a brooch and its size, diameter 12.5mm, is less than of the smallest button brooch. Thickness 1.25mm.Shield boss apex mounts have been collected by Dickinson (2005). This design is not paralleled in her study, and the diameter and thickness are both very much smaller than her group. Despite this, the presence of solder on the reverse and of Style I decoration does argue for a function as a shield boss mount, particularly when compared with other cast discs with Style I decoration on the PAS database such as LEIC-194735 and LIN-C32D64.
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