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Description: | A Later Early-Medieval copper alloy rectangular mount with a rivet hole in each corner. It is ever so slightly dished to the reverse, while the front carries an apparently devolved interlace design in the form of a sinuous beast with beaked head and oval eye within edges flanking the shape of the mount.The mount appears to be cast, the decoration appearing in relief, the reverse being flat (although now rather worn and missing much of its original patina). There is a small nick in one of the short edges and the remains of iron rivets in three of the four rivet holes. Traces of probable original patina survive to the front, a very light green in colour, especially around the corner with the missing rivet.The mount measures 45.05x25.90x2.28mm and weighs 10.35g.Kevin Leahy comments "This looks like one of the S-shaped animals that we get in the Jellinge style of the late 9th-10th century. These have multi-contoured bodies although I have not been able to find any parallels" (pers.comm. June 2013)
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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