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Description: | A cast copper-alloy mount of early Anglo-Saxon date, c. 500-600.The mount is largely complete, but it is uncertain what it was fit into. The mount consists of a rectangular panel with a sunken field and a style 1beast inside a rectangular border in raised relief, gilded. The beast consists of two legs, set in opposite corners, opposed to a head in tail in the other corners, with four distinct body elements set between these features. Gilding remains over much of the surface, though it has been lost on the largest sections of the raised features of the beast. A thick corrosion or concretion can be found on all other faces of the mount, probably belonging to the original material the mount was set in or on. The coloration of the corrosion is suggestive of iron, or a copper-alloy and iron mix.This mount may have been set into harness.
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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