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Description: | Late Saxon Urnes-style mount from furniture or harness, worn and corroded cast openwork, decorated with an elaborate sinuous double-headed dragon-like beast entwined with a snake. The heads of the beast face upward with two linking horizontal bars forming double loop at apex, both heads with beak-like mouth, curved neck and shared body entwined with the interlaced body of the snake in a familiar motif of the Urnes style. Cf. similar mounts from Brampton (HER 24451), Mautby (HER 37426) and Stratton Strawless (HER 41364), and beasts in combat motif on brooches in Campbell (1980) nos.151 and 502. 11th 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: | 1000
1100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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