Dornoch
Mount
Site Name Dornoch
Classification Mount
Canmore ID 282711
Site Number NH79SE 63
NGR NH 79 90
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Dornoch
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NH79SE 63 79 90
7th-century Anglo-Saxon mount: NH 79 90. Approximately one-third of a substantial Anglo-Saxon Style II copper-alloy gilded mount, depicting running interlocked beasts as at Sutton Hoo, Caenby and Durrow; recovered by metal
detecting. An identical example from Allington Hill, Cambridge is in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Dimensions 56.4 x 37.5mm; diam of rim boss 8.4mm; diam of central boss 5mm.
Claimed as Treasure Trove (TT.39/05) and allocated to Inverness Museum.
S Youngs and J Shiels 2005.
