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Description: | A cast copper-alloy mount of probable Early-Medieval/Anglo-Saxon date. It has a rectangular bar with broad central vertical groove flanked by smaller vertical grooves. At each end of the bar are flat square terminals. These have moulded decoration on their front faces comprising central quatrefoil motifs within a raised border, each lobe of the foil being pointed-oval in form. Traces of gilding are present on all surfaces of the front face, particularly at the terminals and in the central grooves. The back face of each terminal has the corroded remains of an integral rectangular lug or rivet, both of which are incomplete due to old breaks their precise form uncertain. Each rivet is positioned at the cente of a slight vertical rectangular groove or depression. The entire object measures 31.41mm in length, 11.54mm in width, 3.49mm in thickness and 3.43g in weight.This is a strap fitting or mount of Early-Medieval date. Parallels in terms of form and decorative elements are noted in a wrist clasp from Coddenham, Suffolk (West, 1998: no. 23.3) and in similar mounts recorded through the PAS from Mid Suffolk (SF-0D0A46 and SF-0CD904). It is of probable Anglo-Saxon date, c.6th-7th centuries AD. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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