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Description: | A broken and incomplete cast copper-alloy circular mount, probably from an early-medieval hanging bowl. The flat disc has lost around a quarter of its original surface area to a ragged break at the circumference. It features two perforations at opposing points at the edge which are now filled with the corroded remains of iron rivets. A further perforation through the centre of the mount is clean and appears not to have had an iron rivet. The upper surface features engraved decoration consisting of five scrolling loops with lobed terminals emanating from the points of a central pentagon (the latter pierced through its centre as described above). Not only does each scroll abut the next, but they appear to be interconnected, with one loop starting from within the previous. In the 'spandrels' between each swirl is an elongated triangular filler. Such a pattern is reminiscent of the swirls on saucer brooches, although the perforations appear to be for separate rivets on this object rather than lugs; catch-plates and lugs on brooches tended to be integrally cast in copper alloy, and even where iron fittings are used in replacement, the scars of original attachments are normally visible. Although the triskele is a very common device on hanging bowl mounts scrollwork is not unknown - see for example ref. LANCUM-52E1C3 on this database. Traces of gilt survive on the upper surface, particularly at the centre. The lower surface is plain but features numerous parallel diagonal file marks. The date range suggested by Geake (1999, 17) for the deposition of all hanging bowls is c. 600 - c. 725 AD. This is the range used below, although such mounts were often reused and the iron rivets might bear witness to a reuse in this case.
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