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Description: | An incomplete asymmetrical mount in the form of a protruding animal head terminal modelled in relief, at the end of a long neck of an Urnes-style quadruped which forms a spiral loop, so that in plan, the mount has the shape of a ragged edged rounded cornered lozenge, with a single long projecting knob (the zoomorphic head and neck) leading from one corner. The body of the beast is interlaced around irregularly spaced holes; including a large central hole with six smaller holes ringed around three sides of it, there are further holes (one broken) at the three corners of the lozenge and two to one side of the projecting terminal and one to the other side. The irregular spacing may relate to the positioning of the quadruped. The back is flat and the front is slightly convex while the projecting knop is D shaped in section. The mount is very worn with a rough dark red surface, the broken rivet holes and edges are worn. Parallels include NARC2639 which is similar but lacking some of the holes in this example. Read (2001, 11; ref. 63) has published an identical seeming mount with only the positions of the breaks to distinguish them. Also mounts found in Denmark are closest to this particular example (Ulriksen 2011, 109; fig. 26). These parallels suggest probably two of the holes in the main lozenge and probably a further hole at the end of the head terminal (now lost) held rivets. Measures 40.79mm by 24.89mm and is 3.76mm thick; weighs 7.19gms.
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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