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Description: | A copper-alloy incomplete unidentified object, it would have originally have been circular in shape but is now worn and measures 32mm by 27mm, it is flat and 2mm thick. Near to the edge of the mount there is a semi-circular perforation, suggesting that a hole was possibly bored here at a later time, so that the object could be suspended. The front face is very corroded and worn but some decoration survives. The design has been worked in bronze and consists of two back-to-back spirals, each with four strands surviving, the arms of these spirals meet where the spirals begin. Further linear four strand bronze work also occurs, staring from the outer edges of each spiral and diagonally from the base of each of the spirals arms. It is likely that there would have been enamel inbetween this four strand bronze work, and perhaps in the now bare patches surrounding the surviving design. No enamel can be seen now, although a slight trace of possible white metal can be seen inbetween the strands on one of the spirals arms, implying that this disc may have also possibly have had white metal decorative elements. The back face is undecorated and corroded. The design on this object is most similar to Anglo-Saxon styles. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 410
1066 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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