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Description: | A tinned copper-alloy early-medieval mount in the form of a fish, with two flattened projections to the reverse. The mount widens and thickens from the tip of the head of the fish (1.95mm wide and 0.75mm thick) to 7.85mm wide and 7.15mm thick at the eyes before tapering to its narrowest point (3.20mm wide and 2.4mm thick) at the tail.In cross-section the body of the fish is triangular. The tail is rectangular in cross-section and broadly triangular in shape; it widens to 17.15mm across. The eyes of the fish are each formed from a single ring-and-dot motif, the centre of which contains some form of corrosion product looking a little like degraded enamel.Above the eyes, along the central ridge, there is a wedge cut out of the body to represent the edge of the gill cover (or operculum) of the fish, at the junction between the body and the tail. The body is not decorated, but the tail has seven notches along the outer, longest edge.The reverse of the tail is flat, the reverse of the body is concave.There is tinning visible on both the front and the reverse. Two integral rivets project from the reverse, both circular in cross-section and with flattened ends. One is located on the tail, the other at the widest extent of the main body, to the reverse of the eyes. Both are slightly bent and the sides are faceted. The rivet to the reverse of the tail is 9.5mm in length 3.95mm wide and 3.5mm thickThe mount is 63.3mm in length, 17.15mm wide and 16.05mm thick; it weighs 11.47g. It is difficult to date, but may be compared to early Anglo-Saxon objects in the form of fish. Compare brooch ESS-C4EB33 and see Geake 2014, which discusses fish in early Anglo-Saxon art and which dates most to the 7th century AD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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