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Description: | A cast copper-alloy mount or strap fitting, most likely to be Roman in date. This mount is hexagonal in cross-section and has a domed front face and hollow back face. It measures c21mm by c21mm in size and 9mm in thickness.
The domed front face has a central circular perforation which measures 4mm in diameter. Arranged at even intervals around the sides of the domed front face, radiating down from the central perforation there are six trapezoidal cells filled with blue and orange enamel alternately, some cells retain more of their enamel than others. There is a circular border groove around the base of the dome. There are also the worn remains of protruding knops on each corner of the hexagon.
The back face is hollow in its centre and flat around its edges. There are two opposing U-shaped projections which are worn, 3mm in height and 4mm in width, these may have originally have been the means of attaching this mount to another object or have formed a loop through which a strap of belt could have passed.
No parallel could be found for this probable mount and what it decorated originally remains uncertain. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Minter, Faye - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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