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English: An incomplete, enamelled copper-alloy escutcheon from a British or Anglo-Saxon hanging bowl. The escutcheon is circular, slightly convex and missing approximately one third of the original surface area. The escutcheon was found in two pieces a couple of meters away from each other in plough soil. The surviving elements measure 30mm in length, with a diameter of 50mm. The escutcheon is 2mm thick.

This decoration on this escutcheon contains three trumpet-spirals sharing the same central trumpet-spiral, though of course one of the these elements is now missing. The trumpet terminal of each trumpet-spiral expands to form the back of a water-bird shown in profile to the right. The wings are folded. One of the two legs curls forwards to form the beginning of the next spiral. The neck of each bird is narrow, and rises to form a thin head with long beak. Each beak extends to form the wing of the next bird.The recesses between the spirals contain red enamel however most of this has now degraded to a light-brown colour. The surface of the copper-alloy has been silvered.

The design is similar to an unprovenanced example in the British Museum (Bruce-Mitford 2005: corpus no.5, fig. 9), and more closely to an example from Camerton (Bruce-Mitford 2005: corpus no.7, fig. 16). It is identical to on from totternhoe, Dunstable, dated to the first half or middle of the seventh-century (Bruce-Mitford 2005: corpus no.8, fig. 18).