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Description: | A post medieval ? copper alloy escutcheon mount, Length 34mm, width 19mm, thickness 3mm, weight 4.17g.The object is openwork and has a sub rectangular form and rectangular section. It begins with a rounded edge which has a centrally placed pointed protrusion which represents an animals ear. Below the 'ear' in the centre of the curve is a circular hole represnting an eye. At one side the edge curves down to form a neck and at the other it forms a snout with a ribbon like projection. The snout has one sub spherical slight protrusion and the neck has two. Underneath the 'Snout' of the animal is a sub rectangular hole filling much of the width of the object, with the ribbon like projection forming one edge and the neck the other. Below this the object may be incomplete; Its edges are abraided and rounded so its hard to say if parts are missing. It is rectangular in form with two right angled corners and there is a hook like projection emerging from the flat, incomplete base, just off centre. The body here has three complete and two partial circular holes filling this area, which appear to form two diagonally placed lines. The surface in between these holes has at least five distinct rounded protrusions (arranged in a cross formation). These drop in places suggesting the pattern forms a body which is entwined on itself. The object is closely paralleled to one object on the database, SWYOR-C78C16.
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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