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Description: | Copper-alloy mount from a crucifix. The mount depicts a robed male figure standing facing. The head is a solid cylinder with a ridge on the front for the nose. The eyes a made from a pellet of bright blue enamel, the left side is missing. The body is convex and has two rivet holes down the centre. The robe is decorated with two longitudinal cells on either side and two small diagonal cells in the middle, which would originally have been filled with enamel. The bottom edge of the mount is angled down to the right.Mounts such as these are usually seen as mounts on a crucifix, or sometimes in sets of three decorating the sides of caskets. 12th to mid 13th century
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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