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Description: | Fragment of early to mid 16th century monumental brass. This fragment is subsquare in plan and flat in section. It portrays the head and shoulders of a civilian male. The face is suboval. The eyes are incised lentoids with a dot to the centre. Above are two flattened incised lines that represent the eyebrows. The nose extends from, but does not join with the brows. It is formed from two straight parallel lines, with the tip of the nose formed from a downward facing trefoil shape at the end, again not joined to the parallel lines. The mouth is a straight incised line with down turned ends. A small curved incised line below forms the chin detail. The hairstyle is long and straight and frames the face to collar length on either side. Straight, vertical parallel-incised lines detail the hair. Two parallel-incised lines beneath the face suggest the man's garment. The reverse of the brass is decorated with an incomplete design. It appears to be made up of a repeating motif formed from four long rectangles placed at right angles to each other. Within the created square is a four lozenge shaped petalled flower set around a central dot. This pattern appears to repeat itself, though only one flower remains intact. At least one is bisected vertically, at the edge of the object, and one corner of one flower partially survives. The reverse design shows that the object was reused from an earlier monumental brass and hence why the pattern is bisected in irregular places. John Blair of Queens College Oxford, who kindly identified the object, informs that such reused brasses are referred to as 'palimpsests'.
The brass fragment is 28.74mm long, 28.42mm wide, 2.88mm thick and weighs 12.79g. It survives in good condition with an even dark greeny brown patina. The break edge, though not fresh, is not worn smooth, suggesting damage occurred in the recent past. | 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: | 1500
1550 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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