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Description: | A medieval silver-gilt bezel, or mount, in the form of a crown above a foliate element. The curved shape suggests the object may have been a finger-ring bezel. The crown is pierced by four holes, and the lower element by two holes. The latter may have been intended to give the appearance of eyes in a face, and were the rivet holes by which the bezel was originally attached to the ring, traces of which survive on the reverse. The gilding is worn. The length of the bezel is 15mm and the width is 14.5mm. | Subjects: | Bezel | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Staves, Lisa - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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