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Description: | Incomplete copper-alloy probable hanging bowl mount of Early Medieval date. The mount consists of a circular disc with a a slightly domed front. The reverese is flat and plain. The front carries a raised scrollwork design consisting of three spiral scrolls, one mostly lost due to damage. Each scroll consists of a spiral of three concentric loops at one end, then a curved linking arch and at the opposite end an incurved tail with an arch back out towards the exterior of the mount - there is openwork detail at the neck of these 'tails', possibly intending to be zoomorphic, bird-like, in form but heavily stylized. These 'tails' of each spiral scroll around the outside of the mount linking all three spirals together. There is no trace of enamel or gilding present on the mount in its present condition.The mount has no obvious point of attachment - no solder on the reverse, no rivet holes and no side-lugs but given the incomplete nature of the mount the former existence of such features cannot be definitively dismissed.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 it is known that such mounts were often reused at a later date.
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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