Record ID: SOM-72A155
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a large, Early Medieval gilded copper alloy sheet mount with slightly concave sides and chip carved spiralling interlace decoration, probably of 8th century date. The fragment has part of one long edge which has a shallow, concave, curve. There is an unrecessed border along this edge from which an unrecessed line projects at right angled to bisect part of a unrecessed line circle before ending in a circular hole in the opposite, broken edge. It seems likely that the mount, or this part of it, was symmetrical with a central circular hole encircled by a plain line circle and fou…
Created on: Friday 3rd April 2020
Last updated: Friday 3rd April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ston Easton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-5C624A
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy object, probably a gilded openwork mount, of possibly late Early Medieval date. The piece is broadly triangular with a old, patinated break along the shortest side. It is mostly flat with rounded sides and slightly thickened towards the centre. The long slides are slightly convex curved and converge towards the complete terminal which is expanded into two curved leaves with raised borders and an almost circular indent between. It is possible this indent was a drilled hole and a third leaf of a trefoil has been lost beyond it. In the constriction between the sid…
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-92E674
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy mount, perhaps a noseband mount from a bridle, with chip-carved gilded Style I zoomorphic decoration dating it to the early Anglo-Saxon period (6th century AD). The mount has a rectangular central panel and is slightly arched profile with the middle higher than the ends. The mount has flattened fan shaped terminals at each end and two rivets at the reverse. The terminals start slightly narrower than the rectangular panel with sides that splay out to meet the convex curved outer edge in rounded corners. The front of each terminal thins towards the edges. The terminals ar…
Created on: Monday 30th March 2015
Last updated: Saturday 25th August 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-612E06
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval copper alloy object, possibly a mount. The object is a flat plate with moulded front and flat back apart from one integral rivet and recessed areas behind some of the moulding, probably air holes from casting. the lower right corner is slightly bent back but this may be due to damage. The outline is of a semi-circular upper half extended at the base into three points (pelta shape). The outer two extensions are animal heads which look inwards so their open jaws flank a human head on the third, central extension. The upper half is decorated with large angular recessed fie…
Created on: Monday 26th January 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pill and Easton-in-Gordano CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-656416
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy Anglo-Scandinavian strap mount, probably for a stirrup, with a projecting zoomorphic terminal in the form of a beast's head at its apex. The body of the mount is decorated with moulded interlaced single strands, representing coiled serpents, and it has a knopped edge which is missing in places. There are two circular attachment holes set along the long axis of the mount: the upper hole is empty and the lower one is still filled with iron corrosion product from the remains of the rivet that would have held the mount to a leather strap. Below this rivet the …
Created on: Friday 16th November 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd June 2020
Spatial data recorded.