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Description: | Incomplete medieval mount, probably from a box or casket, in the form of an elongated, legless winged animal or monster (perhaps a dragon) with long head, turned up nose, long narrow neck and tapering D-section body. There is the stub of a downward projection below the head. The other end is broken across a rivet hole that is slightly broader at the base. At the base of the neck an incomplete right angled hook projects from the underside, and on the front folded wings are depicted by means of moulding and engraved and transverse lines. A second rivet hole, of strongly conical profile widest at the base, passes through the wings.See discussion, with cited parallels, at SF-8E6271, a similar but much larger object from Monewden, Suffolk (Medieval Archaeol. 49 (2005), 345-6, fig. 7c and d; also illustrated in Proceedings of Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History 41 (2006), 238, fig. 53C). Another Norfolk example was found in Grimston (HER 13800). 12th century.
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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