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Description: | Copper alloy mount fragment. Flat plate with straight and slightl convergent sides and a straight end between them; broken along two other straight edges. The display face bears an incised curvilinear image of the neck and head of a dragon or beast with upturned snout, open jaws and a long trail behind a large D-shaped eye. The body is perhaps scaled, indicated by a series of comma shaped cuts along its neck. The beast appears against a ground of finely executed cross hatch producing a field of delicate rhomboid daiperwork. There ias also an incised border following the outer edge of the plate.The straight edges of the plate might suggest it to come from a larger cruciform figure in the form of a Greek cross, though this might seem at odds with a dragonesque subject which might point to Viking pagandom. The whole object has a black shiny surface, removed by recent scratches at one part of the back. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 850-1000.Length: 23.1mm, Width: 33.0mm, Thickness: 0.6mm, Weight: 2.64gms
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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