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Description: | Probable box or casket fitting of medieval date. A mount in the form of an elongated, legless animal or monster with a long head, turned up nose, protruding brow and ears, narrow neck and tapering D-section body decorated with oblique grooves along sides. Tail missing. An integral attachment spike springs from the flat underside of the body near the junction with the neck. Near this a neat vertical hole is slightly wider on the underside. Another adjacent hole on the underside does not penetrate through the body. Length 50mm, width 6mm. Probably 12th century.
This mount can be compared with five others which appear to have been made in the shape of a dragon; SF-8E6271, LIN-D6F2C2, LIN-4F65C5 (all published in Medieval Archaeology for 2005, p. 345-6, figs. 7c and 7d) and NLM5639 and SWYOR-761334. All have an integral right-angled blunt-ended spike or peg towards the front of the body (two in the case of the Suffolk example), plus a hole in the centre of the object which on SWYOR-761334 holds a separate three-dimensional figurine of a bird. One or two separate rivets towards the tail were presumably used to attach these objects, perhaps to the end of the ridge of a box or casket lid.
A seventh example, NMS-265275, is simpler in design with the remains of the spike or peg only. It might be worth also comparing SWYOR-CB2705. | 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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