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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy mount of Post-Medieval date. It comprises a rectangular shaft with a flat back face, flattened terminal end, and moulded foliate decoration on the front face. The terminal is triangular in plan with moulded scalloped exterior edge and a short projecting knop to one side, resembling a hand or perhaps foliate decoration. At the base of the terminal is a collar consisting of two raised transverse bands followed by a globular semi-circular knop. The main shaft extends from the collar to a raised semi-circular arch that has a concave back face and moulded foliate decoration to either side. The mount terminates in old breaks on the opposite side of the arch to the terminal. The back face of the entire object is flat with extensive tool marks still visible, suggesting this was intended not to be seen and therefore probably attached to another object. This mount measures 41mm in length, 10.25mm in width, 6.91mm in thickness (at arch), and weighs 3.83g.
A close parallel to this object has not yet been identified. However, the form of the moulding and the flat back face suggest it was probably a mount of some kind, perhaps attached to a box or item of furniture with the arch forming a loop through which a handle or similar object may have passed. It is of probable Post-Medieval date belonging in the 16th or 17th centuries AD. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Brown, Andrew | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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