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Description: | A complete early Anglo-Saxon mount, made from copper alloy and partly gilded. It is roughly square, measuring 16.71mm by 18.29mm in size and 1.83mm in thickness. The front is divided into two panels, a U-shaped chip-carved and gilded panel and above this a T-shaped undecorated panel. The gilded panel depicts two beasts with simple double-strand bodies and no legs, which interlace in three simple twists. The large heads have open mouths arranged vertically in the opposing uprights of the U shape. The outer edges of the U-shaped panel have small notches cut into them to create a beaded border which is interrupted by the tails of the beasts. The upper T-shaped panel has no trace of a white-metal coating or any other surface treatment. Projecting from the reverse are two integral rivets, with rectangular cross-sections which taper to a point. The decoration points to a date probably in the last few years of the 6th century AD.
Other early Anglo-Saxon square chip-carved and gilded mounts are known from elsewhere in Suffolk, including Coddenham 026 and 022 (West 1998, fig 21, 8, fig 23, 10). They are probably decorative mounts from belts or horse-harness. A parallel on the PAS database can be found at FASW-A0BFA1. | 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: | 580
610 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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