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Description: | A cast copper-alloy mount of medieval date decorated unifacially. The mount is broadly rectangular and features a circular perforation in each corner; no rivets survive. The upper surface of the mount is divided into two unequal decorative zones, the main field filling around eighty percent of the surface. The narrower zone extends from one long side to just the other side of the rivet holes. It is delineated by a longitudinal border at this latter point and one just inside the edge. The decoration consists of an elongated wavy line within this zone, largely in the space between the rivet holes. There are small longitudinal incisions above and below the wavy line. The main zone is defined by a crude border just in from the sides and the narrower zone. It is largely filled with an S-shaped motif formed of two parallel lines that terminates at both ends with an open pelta. The spaces either side of the 'S' are largely filled with broadly D-shaped open motifs whose curves abut the sides of the 'S'. Certain areas abutting the motifs in this field are 'filled' with scratched decoration. There seems to be further rocker-arm decoration around the rivet holes on the edge furthest from the narrow zone. The mount has been slightly bent in profile. It has developed a variable mid-green patina.
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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