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Description: | Mount from an unidentified object with engraved curvilinear decoration. One edge is very clearly bent and broken, with stress cracks on the metal around; another edge, curving around a squarish hole, is clearly original. The other edges are more uncertain. The engraved decoration consists of a 3 mm wide tendril which branches into two tightly spiralled ends. One of these spirals is cut through by the 3 mm square hole, which is probably for attaching the mount to the object. The reverse is undecorated and the mount is made of thin metal, about 0.8 mm thick. It is corroded to a rough purplish brown with patches of pale brownish green. Both the patina and the decoration suggest a late Anglo-Saxon date. | 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: | 900
1100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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