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Description: | A worn decorative copper-alloy mount of Roman date, this mount is likely to have originally adorned a larger object, such as a box or casket. The mount incomplete along all edges which are worn and irregular, it is in the form of a face, the front is shaped and projecting and the back face is hollow.
It is oval in plan and measures 25.1mm in length, 20.3mm in width and 12mm in thickness. The front face has a flat brow, a protruding triangular shaped nose and grooves representing eye brows, the eyes seem to be circular but are obscured by what appears to be corroded iron, it may be that the eyes were holes originally and the iron is showing through from the corroded iron rivet projecting from the back face of the mount. The face has shaped rounded cheeks and a straight groove representing the mouth, the chin is slightly protruding. The lower edge of the face has a groove delimiting it. There are also traces of a white metal/silver coating on the front face of the mount.
The hollow back face has a central corroded iron rivet which is rectangular in cross-section, surrounding this is a mass of white solder. Both the solder and the rivet would have allowed this mount to be attached to another object.
No parallel could be found for this mount but shaped mounts of a similar size, such as lion headed mounts, which are thought to adorn cremation caskets, are known from the Roman period and also have iron rivets and solder within a hollow back face. | 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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