Record ID: NMS-CBE455
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of silver binding strip or mount, probably from a vessel. Rectangular silver sheet, curved length ways, the long edges rolled inwards, with a broken fragment of silver back-plate or vessel body soldered across the resulting rounded edges on the reverse at the unbroken end. There are two opposed, openwork transverse panels of decoration, consisting of arches terminating in pellets forming trefoils and a cabled rib soldered to the sheet. Beyond the second of these openwork panels, which is damaged and mostly missing, the strip is distorted, broken and the surface slightly disco…
Created on: Monday 3rd December 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 10th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'PERTENHALL', grid reference and parish protected.