Record ID: IOW-2F28B5
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
Part of a cast copper alloy mount (possibly) of probable Early-Medieval date AD 410 – AD 1066). Length: 29.5mm, width: 29.6mm and 2.7mm thick. Weight: 4.88g. The object resembles the head-plate of an Early Medieval radiate-headed brooch although it is definitely not part of a brooch. It is largely flat and has a projecting lobe at the ‘top’ and one at each ‘side’. Each lobe is perforated and is filled with corroded iron, possibly the remains of rivets or pins. At the ‘bottom’ a central projection, which has an old abraded break, resembles part of the bow of a brooch. H…
Created on: Saturday 8th September 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-227533
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a copper alloy circular gilded mount with interlace work of Early Early-Medieval date (AD 600 - AD 700). The mount would have been about 68mm in diameter, when complete. It is about 2.5mm thick and weighs 10.41g. Two small portions of the central part survive and these are decorated with three-stranded Style II animal interlace (part of a foot or paw appears to be present). This representation of an animal was enclosed by a circle of closely spaced repetitive punch marks which are lozenge-shaped and each has a central pellet. The circumferential beaded rim is slightly th…
Created on: Thursday 4th August 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 4th July 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wootton Bassett', grid reference and parish protected.