Sword mount & ring
Unknown Artist
- Art Funded
- 2004
- Dimensions
- 1) 16 x 16mm; 2) diameter: 17mm
- Vendor
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
1) A hollow cast mount in a pyramidal form with eight triangles on each face with niello-inlaid recesses inbetween.
Five of the triangles are gilded and the mount is set with a square-cut malachite at the apex (illustrated). 2) The ring has a punched decoration with triangular designs around the edges and thunder signs around the median.
Provenance
Discovered by a metal detector user, declared Treasure in 2003.