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Description: | Early Medieval mount; Anglo-Saxon mount with Style 1 beasts, dating to the 6th or early 7th century; Cast copper alloy mount with gilded openwork sections. Mount is sub-rectangular with crossing, relief-moulded lines sectioning it into triangular sections. The crossing point of these lines is off-set, giving differing sizes to the resulting sections. The largest section is undecorated but has a possible remnant of solder present, which may indicate that something else was once attached, potentially a silver appliqué, in the Bichrome Style. The small section (diagonally opposite the largest section) is thinner than the rest of the mount and has a small, circular rivet hole pierced through it. The other two sections show openwork, zoomorphic beasts. These sections have been gilt. The gilt sections are symmetrical with each other, although a small segment of the left-hand section is missing.For similar use of gilt copper alloy with silver appliqué, cf. Benet A09-0125, pg 284Height 26.40mm, width 32.25mm, thickness 2.01mm, weight 6.11g
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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