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Description: | Cast copper alloy Medieval mirror case from the 13/14th centuries.
The main body is circular. There are 2 halves which are hinged together so that they open and close. There would have been a mirror inside the case but this is now missing. There is the remains of what may be a kind of cement meant to hold the mirror in place, around the inside edges of the case.
Both discs have a single lug on onse side and a pair on the other. one disc has the single lug piereced, the other has the pair, for a copper alloy rivet which acted as the hinge. On this example the left hand disc also has another single lug. The lugs are 5.22mm long
Both outside faces are decorated with the outline of a crude, rounded, open cross in double lines of punched opposed triangles. There is also a plain cross inside the open cross. There is a circle of similar decoration around the edge of both faces.
Similar examples were found on excavations in London (Egan and Pritchard; 1995; 362) | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | McIntosh, Frances | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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