File:NARC-4A1C66 mount (FindID 602096-457261).jpg
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[edit]NARC-4A1C66 mount | |||
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Northamptonshire County Council, Julie Cassidy, 2014-02-19 12:28:01 |
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Title |
NARC-4A1C66 mount |
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Description |
English: A cast copper alloy mount in a trilobe shape featuring an elaborate Borre style knot motif on each arm, and a interlace triangular know in the centre. The surface has been gilded, with traces of gilding on the face and reverse. The reverse is plain with no obviouls evidence of a fixing for a pin, although two small bumps on the reverse of one arm could possibly be a scar from a lug to hold a pin, although these are obscured by some uneven corrosion and by no means definitive. There are two incomplete loops at two of the inwardly curving sides, and a scar at the third. The patina of the copper alloy is a reddish-brown.
Dr. Kevin Leahy comments that this appears to be a Viking trefoil brooch of Maixner's Type F. In her recent book Jane Kershaw was only able to quote two Type F brooches from England, a similar example from Bures Hamlet, Essex (Kershaw, 2013, 86-9, Fig. 3.45) and a less close example from Thetford. This would make this find only the third Type F to have been found in England. Dr. Helen Geake comments: Ostensibly a trefoil brooch of Maixner's Type F, which is the least common of all trefoil brooch types either in England or in Scandinavia. This is only the third example to be found in the UK (the others are silver from Thetford and gilded Ae from Bures Hamlet). What makes this object even more extraordinary is the (apparent) complete lack of pin fixings - instead, there are pierced lugs that stick out from the edges, as if it was sewn to the garment. Could it be a missing link between the trefoil brooches and the Carolingian strap-fittings that they are based on? |
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Depicted place | (County of findspot) Northamptonshire | ||
Date | between 800 and 900 | ||
Accession number |
FindID: 602096 Old ref: NARC-4A1C66 Filename: NARC-4A1C66b.jpg |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/457263 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/457263/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/602096 |
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Object location | 52° 27′ 10.8″ N, 0° 37′ 28.05″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 52.453000; -0.624457 |
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