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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy gilded and enamelled mount of Medieval date (c. AD 1150 - c. AD 1300). Length: 53.97mm; max. width: 21.29mm; max. thickness: 10.62mm; weight: 16.88g. The mount is in the form of a human figure with a solid fully-round head and concave, hollow-backed body. It is worn and corroded but facial features (brow ridge, circular-punched eyes, prominent nose, mouth) are visible on the head, as well as traces of gilding. Below the head a short neck extends into the cloaked body. The folds of the robes form cells for enamel, with fragments of blue enamel surviving. Traces of gilding are also visible over the entire surface of the body. The figure's left arm is obliquely angled down and across the body and the right arm up and onto his breast, holding a rectangular panel at the centre of the mount, possibly a book. There are circular perforations 2.36mm and 2.72mm in diamater, one below the neck and one through the chamfered semi-circular base of the robe.This mount was probably made in the late 12th-13th century AD. On stylistic grounds it would be attributed to the great manufacturing centre of Limoges, France. The figure depicts what is usually described as "saints" or perhaps an "apostles" and were originally attached to caskets or reliquaries, and sometimes crosses. Such mounts have been recovered from a number of prestigious ecclesiastical sites such as Salisbury, London and Winchester. A similar type of mount is illustrated in Saunders (ed), 2001, Medieval Catalogue (vol. 3, pages 41-2).
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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