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MOUNT
Unique ID: LIN-74725D
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete late Saxon copper alloy mount, probably dating to the 11th century. The mount is rectangular in plan and is decorated with an openwork zoomorphic panel probably following the Urnes style. The panel depicts a beast with slender neck, head and snout, standing in profile to the left. The beast is slim and highly stylised, set against a tight interwoven pattern of strands which probable emanate from the beasts limbs and tail. The mount has a backplate surviving, along with a copper alloy rivet in each corner of the frame. Two integral but incomplete knops extend from the lower edge of the mount.
Other rectangular openwork mounts, in copper alloy and with 11th-century Urnes-style relief decoration, are recorded on the PAS database at NMS-02A7E0, SOMDOR-ED0DC0 and ESS-7E3A71. These rectangular mounts also bear some relationship to a series of 11th-century flat oval openwork mounts (e.g. HAMP-B06557, HAMP-BF6492, BH-FD11A0 and SUR-29B2E1).
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1000
Date to: Circa AD 1100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 50 mm
Width: 30 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
To be known as: near Horncastle
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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