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Description: | Part of a hinge of ornamental type, solidly cast, probably from a casket or similar container. This item is 42mm long and tapers simply from 12.5mm width at the hinge end to around 8.5 at the terminal. The terminal, which occupies the lowest 10mm of the item, is rounded and apparently (though not quite definitely) shaped to resemble and animal's head with a slightly pointed snout. At this point the mount is only 2.5mm thick, but towards the hinge it thickens considerably. Over the final 8mm of its length there is a deep square-sided and square-faced indentation at the centre, leaving two arms or prongs each 3mm wide and 6mm thick, one at either side of this square void, into which the single pierced hinge-member of the other plate was once located. The hinge pin, apparently of iron and of narrow gauge, passed laterally through the sides of both of these two flanges. The upper surface of the middle part of the casting is pierced centrally by a large rivet hole. The upper surface is decorated with simple in-cast ornament, in the form of a large out-curving V-shape with other detailing above and below. It is possible that this is intended to suggest large pointed swept-back ears of the animal-head on the finial, and if so that may point to a possible Middle Saxon, rather than early post-Conquest Mediaeval date, for the box. It is interesting that another hinge of similarly ambiguous date, but of quite different design, should be among finds from the same field (SF-FB1F76). | 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: | 750
1300 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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