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Description: | A copper-alloy possible strap fitting or box mount. Shaped like a Romanesque-style animal, probably a dragon, this object consists of the flat body and tail of the creature with a projecting neck and head at one terminal and a tail at the other. It measures 44mm in length and 10mm in width, and the head is set 12mm in height above the body.
The head has an open mouth with a tongue protruding from it. There are two parallel circular drilled indentations, which represent eyes, one on either side of the head. Behind these there are three transverse grooves across the creature?s brow. Beyond these there are two parallel oval ears, which are set well back and curve towards the body of the creature.
The upper face of the body is decorated with longitudinal grooves which appear to represent wings. The tail terminates in an oval shape with a circular drilled perforation through its centre.
There is a copper-alloy rivet through the body of the creature just behind its neck. On the reverse it can be seen that this rivet is attached to a fragment of copper-alloy sheet, now incomplete due to old breaks.
This object fits best into a group of enigmatic dragon-shaped objects which probably date to the 12th century. Most are rather more three-dimensional, and have a right-angled peg extending from the underside and a hole further towards the tail. SWYOR-761334 has a separate bird-shaped mount attached through the hole. Other examples include SF-8E6271, LIN-D6F2C2, LIN-4F65C5, NLM5639, NMS-249246 and NLM-CA23E3. Some have been published in ?Medieval Britain and Ireland 2004? in Medieval Archaeology 2005. | 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: | 1100
1200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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