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Description: | Fragment of Early or Middle Saxon copper alloy mount, probably from a hanging bowl. Flat-sectioned strip, slightly curved, with the edges beveled on the underside only. The front of the strip is silvered and decorated with open-line, ribbon-style interlace, reserved on a decayed enameled field now a pale buff colour. Broken at both ends and partially obscured by copper corrosion.Surviving length 25mm. Width 8.5mm. Thickness 2mm.Not enough survives to estimate the original diameter, if forming part of a circular mount.A similar strip thought to form part of a basal ring or possibly rim mount was found at Bawsey, Norfolk (NHER12364), see Bruce-Mitford 2005, 215, fig.250 and 251. 7th-8th century.See also NMS-366C26.
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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