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Description: | Relief-decorated flat fragment of cast copper alloy, probably part of a mount. One end is complete; the other is broken at some scrolly motifs which were possibly originally openwork. Beyond this the object has a narrowed waist and is decorated with six transverse ridges. The next element is a pair of scrolls which spiral close to each other and then flare out to enclose a relief fleur-de-lis; they then come together at a point to form what looks like a very debased animal-head terminal. There is a hole, probably for a rivet, above the fleur-de-lis and a strange incomplete oblique projection to one side of the scrolls, continuing the curved line of the edge of the waisted area. This does not appear to be matched by one on the other side; the edge here looks original. The reverse is flat and has a few filemarks. The basic style of the scrolly ornament is 16th century, but the animal head harks back to medieval styles of ornament and so this object should probably be dated early in that century. Surviving length, 35 mm; surviving width, 16 mm. | 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: | 1500
1550 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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