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Description: | An in incomplete Early-Medieval copper alloy mount with inlaid gold and silver decoration. The mount is roughly octagonal in shape, the outer edge formed from four straight lines, with four inward curving lines between them. The mount is slightly domed, with a concave reverse. In the centre of the reverse is a small, integral, pointed rivet. The outer face is divided into cells (nine in total) by raised bands inlaid with silver. Four semi-circular cells curving inwards from each of the straight sides and joining a square cell in the very centre. Between the four corner cells are smaller sub-rectangular ones. Each of the cells contains incised decoration and two contain the remains of gilding. The decoration within the gilded cells is much more clear and appears to consist of pairs of parallel grooves runing towards the centre of the mount, with diagonal, parallel lines between them. The mount is in fairly poor condition. The copper alloy has a powdery green patina and much of the silver inlay and gilding is missing or flaking away. To the reverse is a patch of shiny orange coloured corrosion. PAS Finds Advisors Kevin Leahy (pers. comm) and Helen Geake (pers. comm) both comment that this is a very unusual style of mount.Maximum diameter: 24.29, Thickness: 8.21mm, Weight: 5.83g
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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