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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon circular mount, probably from horse harness. It is decorated on the front with an tightly woven triple-strand interlace and a central blue glass setting within a deep boss-like collar, with a narrower ridged outer circular collar. The surviving part (about half) has a central radial line between this and the rim made up of seven pellets; remains of similar lines of pellets can be seen at the breaks, dividing the field of decoration up into four. The rim is turned up, giving the mount a dished appearance. The front has been gilded, the reverse apparently not.There are many scratches on the reverse. An integral rivet projects from the reverse of the surviving line of pellets; there may have been two of these rivets originally.The dimensions of the object are 45.65 mm long, 29.74 mm wide, 4.63 mm thick and it weighs 10.7 grams. The rivet depth is 10.72 from the front of the mount and 8.7 mm from the reverse of the mount.The mount has parallels in 7th-century contexts from Sutton Hoo mound 2 and from Caenby (Kevin Leahy pers. comm.).
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