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Description: | A late Iron Age or early Romano-British copper alloy scabbard mouth. The mount is a pointed oval in plan. In profile, each side of the lower edge is double-arched to give a bi-concave shape, the centre portion between the arches being slightly shorter than the outer ends. On each face there is a triangular panel, the apex of the triangle pointing downwards from the mouth of the scabbard. Each panel contains a roundel made up of a central cup-shaped depression surrounded by a deeply incised groove. Traces of red enamel remain in the body of the triangle on one side and in the cup shaped, central depression on the other side. There are traces of blue enamel in one of the incised circular grooves. There is an incised border round the edge and an incised line down each edge of the mount. There are also raised oval areas at the top and bottom of each side (the pointed part of the pointed oval shape). These are arranged in pairs to form chevrons. The scabbard mouth piece is 50.1mm long, 24.3mm wide, and 17.6mm thick. It weighs 51.85gm. Similar objects recorded on the PAS database are YORYM-E5A671 and HESH-782C85, and only about 300 Iron Age scabbards are known from the UK. The mount is in excellent condition. It probably dates from 100 BC - AD 100.
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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