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Description: | Cast almost square Middle Saxon mount with flat underside and front face decorated in counter-relief with a triple-strand equal-armed cross overlying a square, with a rounded boss in each angle. The cross arms extend down the edges. The square and the outer strands of the cross are engraved with oblique lines in cable fashion. There is no means of attachment. Barry Ager comments:'...it might be a die for impressing silver or bronze foils for a book cover. The robustness would make it suitable. For example, square silver sheet mounts decorated with more explicit crosses, and with rivet holes in the corners, were found in a female grave 59 at the Frankish, 6th-8th-century cemetery at Lezéville (Haute-Marne), associated with other mounts that have been interpreted as from a book cover (or less likely from a box) (F. Cabrol and H. Leclercq, 1930, Dictionnaire d'Archéologie Chrétienne et de Liturgie, Paris, vol. 9.1, p. 74, figs. 7067-68). Late 7th or 8th century (or perhaps later).'Weighing 11.28g / 174.0 grains. 23.5 x 22 x 3.5mm.
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