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Description: | Medieval probable furniture fitting, mount cast in the form of a legless dragon-like creature with notched stylized head, narrowed neck, and body with longitudinal median line flanked by deep engraved oblique lines, probably indicating wings, and ending in a flattened splayed fish tail, length 30mm, width 6mm. A single integral spike springs from the mid point of the flat underside (length 7mm). Probably from the end of a ridge of a box or casket lid. Cf. a larger example from Grimston in Norfolk Archaeology 45, p.121, fig.7 D, and two others illustrated in Medieval Archaeology 49, p.342, fig.7 c and d. 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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