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Description: | A probable copper-alloy mount now worn. Roughly rectangular in shape with rounded terminal, one of which tapers. This probable mount measures 37.6mm in length and 25.4mm in width.
The front face is decorated with a cast relief design. This consists of a central longitudinal stem with tree-like branches projecting from either side of it. Standing on the branches at the tapering terminal end of this mount are what may be birds or lizards, They have long tails and necks, which curve backwards so that their heads are facing each other and their opposing open jaws touching the central longitudinal stem. At the base of the stem there are two more opposing possibly zoomorphic designs, these are U-shaped with rounded terminals but what they are meant to represent is not clear.
The back face of this probable mount is no decorated but has a slight rectangular depression at its wider end, which could possibly be the remains of an attachment method.
This probable mount is most likely to be late early medieval or medieval in 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: | 1000
1540 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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