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Description: | A copper alloy roundel or mount of Early Medieval date. It is circular, with an outer, pennanular rim 35.5mm in diameter and 2.7mm wide and 3.12mm in thickness, having a square section. Within this rim is a double-sided openwork decoration, depicting an animal's head, possibly a dog with a long muzzle, with a curving neck and drooping ear. With the animal facing left, its face has a ring and dot eye outlined, and there are short incised lines defining the muzzle. The body is narrow and curvy, with a front limb joint indicated by an incised line teardrop shape pointing downwards. The other forelimb is raised up to the rim which it joins just in front of the muzzle. The hind limbs disappear into a narrow curving loop, c.2mm in width, which interlaces across the field and terminates in a tail with a knop at the back of the animal's head. Viewed from the opposite side, with the animal's head facing right, the raised forelimb has a central groove which expands into a teardrop shape joint and further incised lines define the body as it devolves into interlace. A short section of the outer rim, diametrically opposite the animal's head, is open which may have allowed for attachment of the object. The roundel weighs 10.59g. Kevin Leahy comments that the general scheme of the decoration suggests the Anglo-Scandinavian Urnes style and a date in the eleventh century. Other, larger double sided, openwork mounts of this date are also known. The Urnes style is represented on a number of stirrup strap mounts from East Anglia. Williams 1997, fig.6, no.19 details the heads of Scandinavian-type beasts reminiscent of this example, and fig.37, no.189, from Norwich, has an openwork interlace beast. The exact function of this roundel is unclear, but it may have been used as a mount.
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