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Description: | A binding strip from a casket or furniture. Broken at both ends, D-sectioned with median arris. Divided along it's length by three bosses in the form of stylised animal heads with pointed ears, prominent brows and short snouts, with engraved or moulded lines. A rivet hole through one boss which is broken across it's snout is filled and partially obscured by iron corrosion, a rivet hole through the central boss is empty, the third boss has no rivet hole, and the strip beyond the snout is flattened and expanding before a break across a third rivet hole. Length at least 91mm, width of animal heads 11.5mm, width at maximum 14mm. 12th - 14th century. Cf. Portable Antiquities Scheme database number NMS-3257C3.
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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