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All rights reserved, gary smith, 2014-07-01 11:16:19 |
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Saxon mount |
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| Description |
English: A circular gilded copper-alloy mount dating to the early-medieval period, perhaps the 8th or 9th centuries. Gilding survives on the front and on the edge; the flat reverse is ungilded. There is no obvious means of fixing or attachment.
The design of the mount is based on a (missing) central setting with three bosses around which are tight, fine-line 'watch-spring' spirals. In between the bosses the spirals expand from lines to flaring chip-carved trumpets; the chip-carving is very bold. Where two flared ends meet there is a possible transverse ridge (the photo is unclear) which is a clear translation of a two-dimensional trumpet spiral into this three-dimensional chip-carved form. Towards the edge, outside the three places where this transverse ridge occurs (only one is really clear on the photo) are flat areas with no chip-carving. Each one of these (again, only one really clearly) has a little trefoil design, each of the foils long and narrow pointed-ovals, apparently engraved. This is a standard part of the normal trumpet-spiral design. Because the spirals appear to be linked, they could perhaps be called 'running spirals'.
Although there are some hanging-bowl mounts with now-empty central settings (such as one from Whitby, Bruce-Mitford 2004, no. 105), they tend to have six to eight spirals around them. Others are known with central holes and three spirals (such as one from Loveden Hill, Bruce-Mitford 2004, no. 54), but there are no hanging-bowl mounts with bosses and it is difficult to find a close parallel to this object among hanging-bowl material.
Bosses are found combined with 'watch-spring' spirals on other objects. Compare SWYOR-3847B1 on this database, which also has bosses, tight spirals and a now-empty central setting. Both SWYOR-3847B1 and this object are best paralleled among shrine mounts, such as that from Clonard, Co. Meath (published in 'A fragmentary house-shaped shrine from Clonard, Co. Meath' , The Journal of Irish Archaeology, V 1989-90, 49-55). |
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| Depicted place | (County of findspot) Dorset | ||
| Date | between 700 and 900 | ||
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FindID: 624833 Old ref: PUBLIC-D1A321 Filename: new saxon mount 001.JPG |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/474731 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/474731/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/624833 |
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