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Description: | An incomplete Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) cast copper-alloy Style 1 possible disc mount, possibly from a shield boss (c. 500-c. 600).This zoomorphic object is incomplete, the sides being absent due to damage.There is no means of attachment at the rear which is plain and flat. However, it may have possessed rivet holes further out towards the missing rim or could have been fixed by solder.It is now sub-circular in plan and has a central pellet which appears to have been decorated but is now indeterminate. The pellet is enclosed by an annulet with chip carved animal parts beyond.The mount is brown and gilded at the front and brownish green at the rear. The edges are abraded.Length: 28.3mm; width: 25.6mm; thickness: 4.7mm. Weight: 9.75g.Similar discs may have been fixed to the apexes of shield-bosses, e.g. one from St. Albans (in Med. Arch., 48, 2004, p. 235, fig. 1e) and another from Mucking II, gr. 600:-http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1651571&partId=1&searchText=1970,0406.470.a&page=1 (accessed 24/9/2014).Compare with a decorated disc from Shalfleet Parish, Isle of Wight, which has a setting at the centre. See Portable Antiquities Scheme find: IOW-399B75.Thanks are extended to Mr Barry Ager of The British Museum for the suggested identification and references.
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