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Description: | An incomplete worn Viking Age mount, probably late 8th-9th century in date. The mount is cast copper-alloy and in the shape of a side profile quadruped beast, with a large head and snout, small ears and wings. The front face has grooves highlighting the limbs, ear, oval shaped eye, mouth and wings of the beast. The terminal end where the beast may have had a tial is now missing due to an old break. On the back face there is an adhering lead solder with fragments of iron adhering to it, this lead solder presumably allowed the mount to be attached to a larger iron object. It measures 33.62mm in length and 22.36mm in height, it is 3.47mm in thickness. | 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: | 750
900 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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