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Description: | Incomplete cast gilt copper alloy casket mount, rectangular in plan and profile and L-shaped in section. The narrower edge of the mount, that is 10 mm wide, has moulded transverse ridges bordering panels with incised saltire crosses. The wider edge, that is 20 mm wide, is decorated with a line of three raised griffins within rectangular moulded borders, creating three panels. There is a rivet hole, 2.3 mm in diameter, at the complete end of the mount, and there were probably more at the broken end, where the next panel has been torn away from the edge of the wooden casket. The griffins are turning their heads, with a curved ear and snout and lozenge-shaped eyes, towards their tails which have tear-shaped terminals. The bodies of the beasts have incised dots, probably to suggest feathers, or perhaps scales if the animal is meant to be a dragon. There are patches of blue enamel which has not corroded and darkened suggesting that the object may not be Medieval in date, but it is in style. The heads of the beasts do not look like lions' heads and the stance is not like a lion passant, which is more typically found on Medieval buckle plates, but there are similarities in one plate drawn in Griffiths, Philpott and Egan (2007) on page 107, plate 18, fig.851.See SF-5C4172 on the database for a casket mount with a zoomorphic frieze of a hound's head with an ear and a snout, which is dated from the Medieval to the early Post-medieval period. IOW-1A2011 has ridges and incised crosses within squares comparable to the narrow edge of this mount, and is dated from the Medieval period to c.1650.Margeson (1993) illustrates similar cast strip mounts on page 76, fig.41, nos.463-464, that have an attachment shank, and are dated from the 16th to the 17th century.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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