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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy casket mount, probably late medieval or post medieval in date. The mount is folded in half. One terminal has several sections, a trapezoidal one, followed by a rounded one, culminating in a thin pointed protrusion. The reverse is slightly concave. Through the centre of the rounded section is a hole containing the remains of a heavily erroded iron rivet. The main body of the mount is rectangular shaped and undecorated apart from two raised bands at either end. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The other terminal culminates in two long thin protrusions formed from long integral strips of metal that have been folded over and secured in place with an iron plate to the reverse. The heavily eroded remains of this plate can still be seen, held in place with an iron rivet. The resulting protrusions secure a thin copper alloy bar at their ends. This would then have allowed another piece to be attached, forming a hinge. The metal is green-brown in colour, with patches of green erosion. The object is similar in design to casket mount no.147, fig.50 shown in ??The Medieval Household?? (Egan, 1998, 73). However, this mount does not culminated in a hinge. Other mounts that do have hinges, though are of a different design, can also be seen in this book on pp.75-81.
Length: 31.5mm, width: 14.8mm, thickness: 11.7mm.
Weight: 9.3g | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Booth, Anna - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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