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Description: | An incomplete gilded copper alloy mount or belt plate, perhaps from horse harness, with chip-carved Style I zoomorphic decoration and dating to the early early-medieval (Anglo Saxon) period, c. AD 500-600. The mount is rectangular in shape with two intact long parallel edges, while the shorter edges are incomplete and broken (old damage). The decorationOne of the short edges has broken in a triangular shape and to the front is filled with corrosion product. This appears to follow a vertical line in the decoration, linking the two intact edges, and is perhaps an edge to the panel of decoration visible. The other edge is broken in a jagged diagonal, and to the reverse next to the centre of this diagonal is an integral rivet 2.7mm diameter in cross-section and 1.5mm in length.To the front the two intact edges are flanked by a raised linear border. If the broken diagonal edge is left and the broken triangular edge right, an L-shaped limb sits just inside the bottommost raised border, extending into the right corner. To its left a trio of raised ribs forms a larger curved L-shape. Behind this is an incomplete vertical rib, cut off by the broken edge. Above the L-shaped limb a trio of raised ribs curve upwards in a backwards-C to join the centre of another curving trio extending from the centre of the curved L-shape. The top edge of this runs to the upper raised border and to the right is a pair of horizontal (straight) ribs running to the upper right corner, where a pair of C-shaped ribs extend down wards to the bottom right corner. Sitting on the curve of the backwards-C in the opposite 'corner' of the mount is a raised ring, presumably representing an eye.The metal is greyish-green to the reverse with a smooth surface. To the front the gilding remains thickly coated over much of the surface except along the apexs of the ridged decoration. The revealed copper alloy on this surface is mostly corroded.The object measures 24.3mm in incomplete length, 15.2mm in width, 3.9mm in max.thickness (without the rivet 2.5mm) and weighs 3.81g.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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