ANGLO-SAXON HANGING BOWL MOUNT 6th-7th century AD A slightly convex discoid bronze bowl mount with finely modelled comma-leaf and spiral motifs and central tribrach in classic Ultimate La Tène style; probably Irish workmanship. 6.99 grams, 30mm (1 1/4"). Fine condition. Provenance Found near Attleborough, Norfolk, UK; in 1997. Literature Cf. Youngs, S. (ed.) The Work of Angels. Masterpieces of Celtic Metalwork, 6th-9th centuries AD, London, 1989, item 31. Footnotes Mounts of this kind are found in many Anglo-Saxon 'princely burials' of the later 6th- early 7th century AD, attached to hanging bowls used as serving vessels. They are usually considered to be Irish or Romano-British in origin, and may have formed part of the exchange network for prestige goods among leaders of British, Pictish and Anglo-Saxon communities in the 7th century. See R.L. Bruce-Mitford The Corpus of Late Celtic Hanging-Bowls with An Account of the Bowls Found in Scandinavia, Oxford, 2005.
ANGLO-SAXON HANGING BOWL MOUNT 6th-7th century AD A slightly convex discoid bronze bowl mount with finely modelled comma-leaf and spiral motifs and central tribrach in classic Ultimate La Tène style; probably Irish workmanship. 6.99 grams, 30mm (1 1/4"). Fine condition. Provenance Found near Attleborough, Norfolk, UK; in 1997. Literature Cf. Youngs, S. (ed.) The Work of Angels. Masterpieces of Celtic Metalwork, 6th-9th centuries AD, London, 1989, item 31. Footnotes Mounts of this kind are found in many Anglo-Saxon 'princely burials' of the later 6th- early 7th century AD, attached to hanging bowls used as serving vessels. They are usually considered to be Irish or Romano-British in origin, and may have formed part of the exchange network for prestige goods among leaders of British, Pictish and Anglo-Saxon communities in the 7th century. See R.L. Bruce-Mitford The Corpus of Late Celtic Hanging-Bowls with An Account of the Bowls Found in Scandinavia, Oxford, 2005.
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