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Description: | A cast copper-alloy Romanesque mount in the form of a stylised sitting animal, probably a dragon. The elongated convex oval body of the animal has wings incised with diagonal lines. The pointed tail is integral to the body and is also decorated with incised diagonal lines. In the centre of the body is a small circular perforation. The elongated flat neck of the animal is decorated with diagonal incised lines and continues at a right angle from the body to a narrow head. The head is typically Romanesque in style, with incised triangular eyes and rounded protruding ears (see Zarnecki,1984, p.251). The bottom of the mount is flat. The length of the mount is 43.0mm, the width is 7.8mm and the weight is 4.62mm.
This object fits best into a group of enigmatic dragon-shaped objects which probably date to the 12th century. Most have a right-angled peg extending from the underside as well as the 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 SF-1EADD4. 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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