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Description: | A copper-alloy probable mount most likely to be early Anglo-Saxon in date. It is crescent-shaped with a central tapering rectangular projection in the centre of the concave edge. It measures 33.5mm in width and 22.9mm in height and is flat measuring 1.7mm in thickness. There is a circular hole c2.4mm in diameter in the centre of the terminal of the rectangular projection, this is probably a rivet hole. The front face has a border of small crescentic indentations along all the edges except the upper edge of the rectangular projection.
The back face is undecorated and has patches of active green corrosion present.
It is unclear if this probable mount was originally made as such or whether it has be created from a re-used brooch foot as the straight upper edge of the rectangular central projection is worn and it is not clear if it has been created by an old break or not, also the border decoration does not occur along this edge. The terminals of small long brooches are often flared and sometimes crescent-shaped, they also often have border decoration of indented crescent shapes. A small long with a foot very similar to this mount is known for example from Icklingham (West 1998, 167, fig 50, no 7). | 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: | 500
700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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