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Description: | Description: Silver mount, slightly damaged and incomplete on one edge due to an old break now worn. The mount is lozenge shaped, it has a moulded decorated front face with faceted sides and a hollow back face. The front face has a cherub??s head in its centre with foliage sprouting from either side and below it. The two opposing top and bottom terminals are shaped like acorns and the upper one has a hole through its centre with the remains of a corroded iron rivet within it.
Discussion: This mount is reminiscent of other early post medieval decorative strap, belt or even furniture mounts, which can have separate rivets or integral spikes and do sometimes have moulded decoration including cherubs.
Dimensions: 34.17mm in length, 21.05mm in width and 4.03g in weight.
The precious metal content of this mount fulfils the requirements of the Treasure Act in that it is greater than 10 %. | 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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