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A Bronze Mount from the Roman Villa at Lullingstone, Kent
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 November 2011
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An unusual little bronze mount (fig. 1, pl. XXII, 1a, b) has been found on the site of the Roman villa at Lullingstone, Kent, and is published here by kind permission of the excavator, Lt.-Col. G. W. Meates. It comes from the black level spreading over the filling of the bath block, a level which contained much late Roman material but which must be regarded as unstratified. The mount is of cast bronze and 3·6 cm. long. It is basically a bar which is flat underneath for a length of 2·3 cm., and perforated at each end; it then stretches further in one direction, rising into a curved surface underneath, with a deeply chip-carved animal head terminal on the top. A similar animal head, facing the opposite way, decorates the upper surface of the flat bar between the two perforations. The terminal animal has open jaws, and the ears stand up in relief, but the other animal head ends in a blunt nose and the ears are indicated by recessed lentoid shapes. When found, a dome-headed iron rivet was present in the middle hole, and iron rust in the end hole. These iron traces disappeared in the cleaning process.
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page 85 note 1 D.M. Wilson, Anglo-Saxon Ornamental Metalwork, 700–1100 (1964), p. 108.
page 85 note 2 P. Nørlund, Trelleborg(1948), 126, pl. xxii, 1.
page 85 note 3 H. Arbman, Birka, i, Grave 845, p. 320, Taf. 263; Grave 854, Abb. 275, 6, Taf. 264, 1.
page 85 note 4 Ibid., Grave 639, Taf. 259, 2.
page 85 note 5 Goldschmidt, A., Die Elfenbein Skulpturen (1914–26), iiGoogle Scholar, Taf. LXV–LXIX, and LXII–LXIV. See also Holmqvist, W., Germanic Art (1955)Google Scholar, pls. XLVIII and XLVIX. For a detail photograph of one of the animal-head mounts on the Bamberg casket, see Jankuhn, H., Denkmäler der Vorzeit zwischen Nord- und Ostsee, 1957Google Scholar, Taf. 101.
page 86 note 1 Length 63 cm. compared with the Bamberg casket, length 26 cm.
page 86 note 2 Roes, A., ‘Les Trouvailles de Dombourg, Zélande’, Berichten van de Rijksdienst voor het Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek, VI (1955), pl. viii, 4–18, 83Google Scholar. Part of this pl. viii is reproduced here as pl. xxii, 2–14. The scales are various, but the registration number and length of each object is: 2, 2125 D, L. 3·1 cm.; 3, Coll. Frederiks, L. 3·5 cm.; 4, 2125 H, L. 3·5 cm.; 5, 2·25 K, L.3·1 cm.56,2125 B, L.2·7cm.; 7,2125 C, L. 2·7 cm.; 8, 2125 E, L. 3·6 cm.; 9, 2125 G, L. 3·8 cm.; 10, 2125 F, L. 4·2 cm.; 11, 2725, L. 4·5 cm.; 12, 2718, L. 3·5011.; 13, 2724, L.3·4011.; 14,2125 A, L. 3·9 cm.
page 86 note 3 I am very grateful to Mr. J. Ypey for these sketches, and for drawing my attention to the mount from Schouwen.
page 86 note 4 Roes, op, cit., p. 83.