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Description: | A copper alloy probable Early Medieval hanging bowl escutcheon of unusual form. The object is a pointed oval plate of metal, one side of which continues as if to form a circular frame, with the oval against the edge, but the frame only survives for a few millimetres. The frame edge is triangular in section, bevelled on the inside edge. The oval plate is thinner than the frame, recessed on the reverse. The edge of the plate appears to be complete. Projecting from the frame in the centre of the side of the oval is a sub-square sectioned bar which bends backwards and slightly to the side. This may have originally have been a hook. The front of the object is decorated with an inlay, possibly decayed red enamel. This is in a groove along the centre of the possible hook, and the line continues onto the plate where it coils round to fill the plate with stripes of surviving metal and inlay. The design is not interlace, and is not a plain spiral, but is a shape rather like the top of an ergonomic walking stick handle, with borders of metal and enamel round it. The breaks are patinated and the whole is worn.Kevin Leahy suggests that "The decoration is unsophisticated but looks like that used on the hanging bowl mounts from Market Rasen, Lincs. (Bruce-Mitford, 2005, 207-8, figs 234-6; Corpus No. 57)."
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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