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Description: | A copper alloy Medieval fragment of probable binding strip from a casket or box. The strip is a chunky D sectioned bar broken at one end across a rivet hole, with a second rivet hole near the centre. At the other end is a zoomorphic animal head with a flatter and expanding plate projecting from the snout. This end is broken across the rivet hole in the plate. The plate has a faint double line border incised at the edges. The half-round head has an ornate snout with incised detail, triangular eyes with incised dots as pupils and moulded rounded ears where the D sectioned bar starts. Compare DENO-E1A243 and NMS-B81351 which mention parallels in Coad (1982) fig.43 and Margeson (1993) fig.43, no.473. A 12th-early 13th century date is suggested.
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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