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Description: | Fragment of Early Saxon gilt copper alloy mount, possibly from horse harness, just over half of a disc with a transverse bend, cracking and ragged break across a raised central setting (stone missing). The bend may be ancient but the break appears to be more recent. The central setting is placed within counter-relief decoration comprising a broad concentric band of triple-strand interlace, and two narrow bands, one containing a concentric zig-zag line, the other, outermost, with double-strand guilloche. Remains of one separate inserted rivet (probably secondary, projects >3mm) and one integral rivet (projects >3mm) on reverse. The spacing of the surviving two is such as to suggest that there were originally two integral and perhaps two inserted rivets. Diameter 59mm. 2mm thick. Cf. MacGregor and Bolick (1993) nos.47.2 and 47.3. 1st quarter of the 7th century.
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