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Description: | A copper alloy decorative mount dating to the early-medieval period. The mount is broadly triangular in plan with an expanded and rounded apex and an inward-curving base. There are three rivet holes; one in the centre of the rounded apex and two others above the base to either side, both of which extend slightly beyond the edge of the mount; the appearance is one of an animal's head and snout. The centre of the mount is filled with a degraded red enamel within which are set seven square inserts of millefiori enamelling. These are arranged longitudinally with four running back from the apex then two side-by-side and another one behind. The millefiori patterns also alternate; four inserts, including those set side-by-side, have five small internal cells of a black cross with red centre on a white field, with four cells of blue enamel set around to complete the square. The other three inserts comprise four small cells each with a black cross with red centre within a white field. The reverse of the object is flat, plain and undecorated. The rivet holes are the only means of attachment. It is uncertain to what this object would have been mounted on - possibly a harness or possibly a box or casket. The design and decoration suggests an Anglo-Saxon date, probably c. AD 650 - 900 AD.Although there are a number of early-medieval objects with millefiori decoration recorded, no parallel for this object could be found.
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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