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Description: | A cast copper alloy figurative casket mount or strap end. The mount is cylindrical but has a flat reverse indicating that it sat up flush against something. The mount appears to be anthropomorphic in design but the elements are hard to discern, although a head end may be distinguished from the foot end by two triangular projections that may have been intended to represent legs. Several scores and deliniations could be interpreted to represent the face, the shoulders and arms, the torso, and the lower part of the body, possibly in a long robe. There are two rivet holes on the lower half of the body, in which one iron rivet survives. Iron corrosion is present around both rivet holes. The design of this mount suggests that it is Medieval in date, possibly dating from the 13th Century onwards. A similar object identified as a casket mount is published in Egan's 2005 publication Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition (p72 figure 313). Although better executed and later in style than this example, parallels can be made between the two objects.
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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