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Description: | An Early Medieval (Anglo Saxon) copper alloy circular mount dating to the 8th century. This mount is circular and dished, so the front surface is convex and the reverse is concave. There is a central perforation which is filled with iron corrosion suggesting an original iron pin which attached this mount to another element. The front surface is decorated with a chip-carved interlace pattern depicting an equal-armed cross with interlace filling the spaces between the arms. The interlace forms a cross-hatched or net-like pattern. The equal-armed cross has flaring terminals and the arms are decorated with a different interlace pattern to that between the arms. In the centre of the cross there are two concentric engraved circles around a central boss, through which is the central perforation.Artefacts with very similar decoration are recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database e.g. BH-4FDFA5 and NARC-E11208, both of these have very similar decoration with an equal-armed cross with interlace between the arms, however these are pin heads and the central perforation and iron rivet suggests this example is not a pin head but a mount.Helen Geake writes: This seems extremely likely to be from an 8th-century vessel, all the exemplars I can find only have disc mounts on the base, so they'd be flat. This leads to problems distinguishing them from pin heads (compare HESH-E9D295 and BERK-018A38 both of which have the same basic scheme of decoration as yours, and also of course the Witham pins, which are also very similar.Kevin Leahy writes: It's Anglo-Saxon and eight century in date. I can see the problem over its identification and have spent some time looking at the image of its back in the hope of spotting some form of fitting, all I can see are the traces of what looks like iron in the centre. It being attached to something (rather than being a brooch) would explain its lack of substance. In spite of its dished shape I would describe it as a 'mount'. The style of decoration is English.Dimensions: diameter: 53.01mm; thickness: 1.24mm; weight: 15.87g.
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