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Description: | An unusual copper-alloy mount most likely to be early Anglo-Saxon in date. This mount is rectangular in shape with an integral rivet projecting from the centre of the back face. It measures 16.8mm in length and 8.4mm in width. It has rounded corners and one corner has been bent outwards and pulled away from the rest of the mount, this is most likely to be due to old damage rather than an original feature of the mount.
The mount is flat with either end bent downwards slightly, the front face is decorated with applied silver and gold foil or applique. One half of the mount has a central longitudinal band of gold foil flanked by bands of silver foil, there is then a transverse band of silver foil across the centre of the mount, the other half has a central band of silver foil flanked by bands of gold foil. Two of the bands of gold foil are further decorated with longitudinal grooves the third band of gold foil, which is in the corner which has been damaged, appears to have been decorated with transverse grooves instead.
The back face is undecorated and the integral rivet has a square cross-section and measures 3mm in length and 3.2mm in width and thickness.
Although no parallel could be found for this mount it is thought that the decorative tecnique of applied silver and gold foil or applique is most likely to date it to the early Anglo-Saxon period, for example early Saxon cruciform brooches and wrist clasps are known with bands of white metal applique. | 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: | 410
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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