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Description: | A worn and corroded, incomplete, cast copper-alloy unidentified object of late early-medieval date. The artefact is formed of a main central oval body, which continues in a narrow triangular form to the upper right of the oval; severely abraded traces also remain at the opposing upper side and at the lower central area of the oval which suggest the continuation of this artefact in multiple directions. The oval body is pierced by two central circular perforations that sit horizontal to one another, misaligned. Adjoining the upper right triangular remains can be seen the remnants of a further circular perforation, and similar traces of circular perforations can be viewed at the worn upper left side of the oval and at the lower central area below the oval. The upper surface of this artefact has been decorated with a series of incised lines which share longitudinal symmetry. The first follow the curvature at the edges of the oval body, to then curve ninety degrees and pass between the two perforations before terminating at the centre of the remaining upper broken and worn edge; two further incisions begin at the upper outer edges, curve inwardly to the central perforations before returning back upon themselves, and two small incisions curve inwardly in a concave manner to the edges of the body. Two further broadly horizontal incisions run across the upper triangular remnants. Rob Webley (17 March 2014) notes that these groups may describe two addorsed beasts' heads. The groups of incised lines describing, respectively, the heads, the ?mouths, the eyes, and a possible lip lappet (on the sole surviving triangular remnant). The animals are in a late Viking art style, probably Ringerike.The underside is undecorated. This artefact exhibits slight horizontal curvature in profile and has corroded to an overall red-brown colour with areas of mid-green corrosion product on the lower surface. A comparable object has been recorded on this database, ref. HESH-B53141. Comparison shows that the lower part of this artefact would have probably have formed a loop. The incised lines, now filled with off-white corrosion product, may have been filled with niello, although none is clear.
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