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Description: | Fragment of Late Saxon copper alloy mount, possibly from furniture, purplish metal, tapering flat-sectioned bar with opposed concave notches with projecting sides forming part of a perforated trefoil terminal, other end broken across similar opposed notches, decorated with engraved bordering lines inlaid with niello. Surviving length 41.5mm. Width 14mm. 3mm thick. Cf. Crummy 1988, 18, fig.20, no.1791 and a similar (fragmentary) example from Horningtoft, Norfolk (NHER 42698, NMS-612A52). 11th century.
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