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Description: | Copper alloy mount of Roman date. At one end there is a small lunate fitting (length: 13.5mm, width: 11.5mm) above a horizontal bar. The lunate has slightly convex sides and tapers to knobbed terminals which meet in the middle. At either end of the bar beneath there is a broad groove defining a broad vertical ridge before a rounded terminal which is 30mm long and 4.7-9.4mm wide. On the reverse of the bar are the remains of two square-sectioned rivets, which possibly had burred heads. Below the bar is a short rectangular-sectioned arm, which is 9mm long and 6.8mm wide and which has a triangular-sectioned moulding at its centre. This extends into a large lunular element with a curved profile, which is 22.9mm long and has a maximum width of 21.95mm. It has rounded knops on either side of its upper edge and it has knobbed terminals. Where the terminals meet, there is a short D-shaped section with central rounded moulding, which appears as phallic. Behind is a rivet similar to the previous two. The larger lunate motif is slightly concave on the reverse and both lunulars have bevelled internal edges. Even, dark green patina. The mount is 58.5mm long, 30mm wide, 5.1mm thick and the rivets are 2.65-3.65mm long and 2.65-3.75mm wide. A broadly similar, but incomplete mount was found at Woodcock Hall, Saham Toney (Brown 1986, 44 no. 194 fig. 28) and others are known from Vindolanda (Bidwell 1985, 119 no. 17 fig. 40), although that example is hinged and the lunular is divided into cells which were probably originally enamelled. For similar hinged examples see Oldenstein 1976, Taf. 45 450. Phallic imagery on military mounts and pendants is a commonly occurring theme. | Subjects: | Mount | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Puls, Jodi - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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