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Description: | Cast lead plaque or mount. The plaque is plano-convex in plan, flat and decorated on one side only. The decoration is very elaborate and created by moulded lines and tear-drop shaped mouldings. Around the perimeter of the decorated surface is a neat, tight band of short ribs, which are divided above, in the centre and below by three ribs which follow the perimeter shape. At the curved end inside the perimeter decoration is a hatched cross, with an 'eye' decoration in the angle to either side. The eye comprises a circular moulding set on an oval platform. It is unclear whether the 'eyes' are supposed to be lifelike such as representing a snakes head. There is another band of decoration identical to that found on the perimeter situated below the cross, which runs from edge to edge. Below this are nine moulded shapes that resemble 'tear-drops'. The stems of the tear-drops appear to join the downward ribs of the decoration above. Moving futher down the object there is an upward pointing row of nine teardrops, another band of perimeter decoration, and finally a row of ten downward pointing tear-drops. There is a moulded incomplete stem at the top of the curved end on the reverse, which is likely to have attached the object to something else. All of the edges appear to be original and complete.
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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