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Description: | A fragment of a gilt copper-alloy mount of probable late 6th or 7th century AD date.
The piece consists of one end of a plate-like mount, possibly from a book or horse harness. It is roughly trapezoidal in plan, being squared off at the end and gradually extending in width to the point where it is broken. The upper surface has cast triple-strand interlace decoration of late Style I or Style II; this lies within a raised border. The interlace has applied gilding, which is largely masked by iron corrosion from a rivet at the complete end of the plate. The reverse is flat and plain.
The object measures 32.6mm long by 9mm wide at the complete end, extending to 12.9mm wide at the broken end; it is 1.4mm thick and weighs 2.9g. | 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: | 575
700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Julian Watters | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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