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Description: | Medieval Furniture fitting, fragment of mount or binding strip from casket, copper alloy rivet with irregular projecting head in centre of trapezoidal plate, from the sides and centre of the broad end of which project the broken stumps of narrowed bars, perhaps originally in the form of a spindly trefoil or fleur-de-lis or with central bar with sides curling to flank animal-head terminal at the narrow end of the plate. The stylised animal-head is cast, half-round, with angular features comprising pointed, twin engraved chevrons on brow and opposed concave hollows suggesting the eyes and forming the sides of the snout. The end of the snout is damaged, and there is a slight possibility that it may once have continued as a narrowed bar. >11 x 24mm. Cf. broadly similar terminal in The Normans in Norfolk (1994), fig.37, Goodall in Coad Arch. J. (1982) fig.43 and Margeson (1993) fig.43, no.473. 12th-early 13th century. | 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
1250 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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