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Description: | An incomplete Early Medieval copper alloy bifurcate handle mount from a bucket. The mount is cast in one piece and has a vertical shaft which in 28.2mm long. This then splits into two lower curvilinear terminals, each of which would have had a zoomorphic tip, although only one now survives. The tip appears to represent a bird, with the very end narrowing to form a beak. The front surface is decorated with panels separated by parallel incised lines. Each of the panels is decorated with punched annular and triangular designs. There are three separate cylindrical rivets remaining that would have attached the mount to the bucket side, two on the central shaft and one on the complete terminal. The mount is 35.5mm long, 40.2mm wide, 1.4mm thick and weighs 7.8 grams. Similar examples can be seen in MacGregor and Bolick 50.8 pp250-251 and 20.10, p51-52. The bucket would have been wooden and had a supporting framework of copper-alloy and perhaps iron. Such buckets are found in furnished burials dating from AD 400-700. Jean Cook (2004, 32, fig 1) states that "Handle mounts provide the means for suspension of the handle for those vessels where the uprights are not extended above the rim. They are often the most elaborate components amongst the vessel mounts and may contribute significantly to the decoration of the vessel. MacGregor and Bolick say 'Stave built wooden buckets, commonly in yew and varying in capacity from about o.25 litres to 2 litres and more, formed a common accompaniants to the dead. The ones in graves show signs of wear and are often fragmentary when buried so it could have been lost during use. Close similarities with those from Northern Gaul suggest many may be imports. They don't say anything directly about the buckets but Haslingfield is thought to be mid-6th century, other sites with similar ones are dated 5th-6th century" p.247. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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