Rights Holder: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
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Unique ID: WILT-6FA9A2
Object type certainty: Certain
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An early medieval copper-alloy mount decorated with a zoomorphic design. The mount has particularly thin applied silver sheet and has been gilded. The mount is rectangular, has bevelled sides, is concave on the underside and was presumably set into another object, possibly a casket since only the silvered top was meant to be seen. There are no extant means of attachment except that there are indications of extensions of some kind at the bottom of the bevelling at each of the shorter ends of the item. These extensions have broken off at an early date. One of these may have included a loop. The sides and reverse are plain copper alloy. The zoomorphic design probably represents four intertwined serpents. The serpents are decorated with dots. The mount is bordered by a zig zag design. The mount measures 27.7mm in length, 12.8mm in width and is 2.55mm thick. It weighs 3.82 grams. Zoomorphic designs were popular over a long period - AD 750-1100.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 750
Date to: Circa AD 1066
Quantity: 1
Length: 27.7 mm
Width: 12.8 mm
Thickness: 2.55 mm
Weight: 3.82 g
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 19th December 2016
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Other reference: 4738
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Zoomorphic
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: SU0312
Four figure Latitude: 50.90746299
Four figure longitude: -1.95870343
1:25K map: SU0312
1:10K map: SU01SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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