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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy quatrefoil umbonate mount. The base of the mount would have had four trefoil knops, each with a rivet hole in the centre, arranged at 12, 3, 6 and 9 o??clock around the circular domed central boss. Only one of these knops now survives, the rivet is missing. The central boss has a stepped ridge around the base and a flattened apex with a circular depression at the centre. Most of the original surface of the object has been lost; where it remains it has a powdery light green patina. Elsewhere the surface is mid grey in colour. The reverse of the boss is hollowed.
A reference to a similar object can be found in Metal Artefacts of Antiquity, Volume I page 16, no 115. This suggests that the object may be a book furnishing dating to the 14th century. A similar example found in Sussex has been recorded, see PAS database number: SUSS-765001. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Clifford, Trista - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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