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Description: | Mount, the artefact has a rough isosceles triangle shape, 38mm long, 16mm wide, 7mm thick with a concave underside. Two slight lobs in the bottom two corners, the sides are uneven. The top third is domed, which then leads into a ridge for the second third, after which there is a steep step down to a plain rounded terminal with a hole in the centre 2mm diameter.
Decoration comprises of knotwork decoration on the domed section, this leads into the ridge section that has a decorative hole on either side at the base of the ridge, followed by a band that runs across width of the artefact in the centre, terminating in a pointed terminal of the ridge that has a single curl at the base, possibly representing a face mask, or more likely nostrils. The last third is plain. There is a rivet hole in the centre of the domed section with a long copper alloy rivet still in place, about 200m long. The length of the rivet makes it unlikely that this mount was a strap fitting, but may have been used on a box or similar type of furniture.
The artefact is in a rather poor condition, corrosion has stripped away that original surface leaving a dark brown pitted surface, and the surface is very worn obscuring some of the details. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Adams, Kurt - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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