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Description: | A cast copper-alloy mount in the shape of a forward facing angel, measuring 43mm in height and 39mm in width. The angel is quatrefoil in overall shape and has two projecting parallel wings.
The front face is decorated with grooves. These help to depict a halo with small diagonal lines on it surrounding an oval shaped face. The eyes, nose and mouth are cearly visible. Around the neck a collar is depicted and the figure is wearing a long robe with grooves representing the folds in the cloth. The feet and not shown and instead the robes appear to curve around themselves to form a rounded terminal, this could be a crude representation of a cloud. One arm appears to be by the side of the body, the hand within the folds of the robe and the other may possibly be holding something next to the wing, this is no longer clear. The wings have roughly lozenge shaped grooves decorating them, perhaps representing feathers. The back face is undecorated and has a central integral cylindrical rivet, measuring c5mm in length and 4.8mm in width.
This object is most likely to be medieval in date it is similar in style to a White Lias quatrefoil angel on the West front of Wells Cathedral. The motif of half length angels emerging from clouds was very popular on both sides of the channel, the Wells example is dated to c1230 (Alexander and Binski, 1987, 300, no 243). An image of it has been examined by James Robinson of the British Museum who believes that it is circa 15th century in date and a mount from a crucifix, it would have been riveted in to the centre of a cross terminal. | 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: | 1400
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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