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Description: | Silver belt mount, rectangular, hollow-backed and stepped down at each end to broken flanges for attachment rivets. The front panel is divided into four main fields by slightly raised strapwork consisting of an arc across each corner linked by two interlaced, V-shaped loops. The two larger fields contain very stylised animal motifs in Salin's Style I, while the two smaller ones at the ends have rows of ribbing; there is a small triangular pyramid in each corner. The decorated fields, sides and flanges are gilded and there are corroded traces of borders of nielloed interlocking triangles on the strapwork. Surface metal analysis indicates an approximate silver content of 53%; the mount was mercury-gilded. This mount would have formed part of a set of decorative belt fittings. In form it is parralled by a series of mounts from the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Bifrons. In both form and style the mount dates to the 6th century AD (probably the middle quarters of the century). | 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: | 500
600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Andrew Richardson | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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