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Description: | An incomplete and slightly misshapen Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) cast copper-alloy gilded bridle strap-mount (500-600).This object is irregular in plan and sub-rectangular in cross-section. It consists of a stylised human head facing forwards and part of the torso. The head is sub-square and has rounded corners at the top. The large triangular nose is a continuation of the forehead where there is small central vertical groove. It has pellet eyes and bulbous cheeks. From the head, the left side of the body (as viewed) flares outwards and downwards to a break. The outer part of the body is formed by a curving flat raised border which has a central vertical groove. Immediately below the nose a raised flat panel with parallel sides extends to the break below. Between this panel and the curving border are two vertical grooves, above which is a small pointed-oval feature. The rear face is flat and at the lower corner a stub may be the remains of a spike or rivet.This object is green and corroded overall. At the front, gilding has survived within the crevices. The breaks are old.Height: 42.40mm; width: 20.66mm; thickness: 4.61mm. Weight: 11.94g.Barry Ager of The British Museum has commented on this find:It appears to be a fragment from the top end of a 6th-century bridle strap-mount like the one from Eriswell (RAF Lakenheath), Suffolk (Treasure Ann. Rep. 1998-9, no. 52). Other examples come from, e.g., Lechlade gr. 180, and Mucking grs. 639 and 767, with either ovoid, lozenge-shaped, or sub-rectangular central plate (pers. comm. 12/3/2014).
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