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Description: | Copper alloy mount fragments. Flat plate, possibly forming one arm of a Greek cross, with a flat broader end and indented sides. A small fragment of metal has broken from an uncertain position, presumably on the more tattered side. It appears that concave sides were each followed by a short run of three circular motifs resembling ring and dot and linked as a running guilloche; this decoration is mostly lost from one side; a possible fixing hole of diameter c.2mm passes through the central ring on the other side. A linear border frames these motifs, and a field between them. The field now appears plain, though it may include faint traces of an interlaced motif. Gilding traces remain trapped in the decorated zones along the sides. The gilt decoration is characteristic of 8th-century Anglo-Saxon work, while the guilloche nods to a Roman heritage, and perhaps an ecclesiastical context. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 700-800.Height: 18mm, Width: 18.5mm, Thickness: 1.5mm, Weight: 2.38gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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