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Description: | Fragment of a cast copper alloy mount. The object appears to have originally been circular since the outer frame is curved and contains an openwork inner decoration. The frame is D-shaped in cross-section and undecorated. There is a moulded bulbous knop sat on the surface of the frame just before the right-hand break. There is no obvious function for this knop and so it is likely to be purely decorative. The inner openwork decoration is very fragmentary and only two arms survive, which both point towards the centre of the mount. One of the arms has a short section at a right angle to it near the frame. The inner arms are D-shaped in cross-section and where the terminations are complete, they are scroll-like. The central-pointing arms are decorated with a moulded ridge, perhaps representing an animals leg.
It is unclear what the object once was other than being some sort of decorative mount. The surface is fairly worn. | 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: | 600
1066 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Adam Daubney | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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