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Description: | A copper-alloy gilded mount of medieval date. The object is flat and rectangular with incurved edges. The sides are slightly bevelled on the upper surface. At each corner of the mount is a circular perforation, two of which (diagonally opposed) retain a copper-rivet with shallow dome head (L.: c. 6.6mm). At the end of one of the rivets is a square sheet rove which has had one of its corners bent upwards. Traces of gilding survive on the upper surface of the mount although no decoration can now be discerned. The mount is otherwise yellow-green over a red-brown metal, the colour of which is consistent with gilding. The shortness of the rivets and the presence of the rove suggest that this might have been mounted onto a strap rather than anything thicker. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Webley, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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