Basic info

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Unidentified object

Object category

Anglo-Scandinavian

Description

Mount with concentric circle design. Waterman 1959 describes YORYM : 1948.500.1-500.6 as "Wooden casket with bone mounts. The fragments of an oak casket, covered with plain and ornamented bone strips, retained in position by flat-headed iron pins, about 0.35in long, driven in flush with the surface was found in the Coppergate Group A deposit. The engraved ornament consists for the most part of a simple, compass drawn, single or concentric circles, sometimes with open centre but a more elaborate openwork, set within an incised pointed-oval, is backed by thin pieces of sheet bronze, evidently gilded on the upper surface, which when new would have served to emphasize this feature of the design."

Production date start

866

Production date end

1066

Period

Anglo-Scandinavian