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Description: | An incomplete circular cast copper alloy mount, probably dating from the eighth century AD. The front of the mount, which measures 42.36 mm in diameter and weighs 5.98 g, is gilded, with the exception of an exterior band, 2 mm in width. About a quarter of the mount is missing. The front of the mount is decorated with four chip-carved fields. One of the pairs of opposing fields share similar designs, and the missing fourth field would have therefore presumably matched the the remaining third field. The matching fields each consist of a symmetrical interlace motif. The other field is decorated with a geometric foliate design, which includes several leaves and two central trefoils. The fields do not go right to the centre of the object leaving an undecorated circular area in the centre, which is pierced by a central iron stud, 4.56 mm in diameter. Three other iron rivets pierce the mount. These do not form any regular pattern. Kevin Leahy has dated this mount to the eighth century AD. Similar decoration can be seen on a fragment of another eighth century mount, from Covehithe in Suffolk (Treasure Annual Report 2003, no. 87, pp. 68, 212). | 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: | 700
799 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Naomi Payne | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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