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Record ID: YORYM-D6E0A2
Object type: TRIAL PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A lead pad or trial piece from a die stamp of early Anglo-Saxon (7th century) date. The object is flat and sub-rectangular with rounded corners, and has a worn break to one end. A shallow impression has been made on one side, almost certainly by a die stamp for making impressed foil mounts. The decoration is in Salin's Style II, framed within a tapering sub-rectangular border and with rounded lobes at the surviving end. Each lobe is filled with the curl of the beak of a predatory bird with pointed-oval eyes and no headframe. Interlace is present between the beaks. Beneath the birds' h…
Created on: Wednesday 10th July 2013
Last updated: Sunday 7th August 2016
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