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Description: | A cast copper alloy circular mount or possible brooch. Only one third of the object survives. The front surface has been gilded, most of the gilding survives. Tania Dickinson of the University of York has suggested that it is possibly of local Jelling Style. The decoration does not comfortably fit into either Style I or Style II. There is no obvious means of attachment on the reverse of the object, but this could have been removed with the break. It could have attached to a wooden box or horse harness. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The decoration is based on animal art, with scroll-like interlacing creatures. The bodies are in-filled with pellets (like Style II art). The heads and feet of the animals are both evident. The feet are like claws, formed from linear designs. The object has a high rim, with a flat top. The rim is worn, so much of the details have been lost. Gilding does survive on the rim; it has been inlaid into a double border, which has vertical lines in between. Inside the main design the upper surfaces of the high relief have lost the gilding, exposing the light greyish-green pitted metal below. The gilding survives in the lower cells. Tania Dickinson roughly dated the object to post 7th Century, but it could date up to 1000 AD.
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