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Description: | Incomplete, square gilded AE mount with filigree decoration around an empty cylindrical collet. The gilding extends over all the object except the inside of the collet. It is not possible to see how the collet and base plate are attached to each other. Around the outer edge of the plate a twisted filigree wire bends around each corner and curves away from the edge and towards the centre before returning to the next corner. In the space between the wire and mid-point of each side is a group of three pellets and within the three surviving corners are simple filigree spirals with tails, the ends of which are marked by pellets. Three wire rings, one above another, surround the base of the exterior of the collet. Two circular perforations, driven from the top and puncturing the base plate below the collet, presumably served to secure the missing setting. At the most complete corner, part of a circular attachment hole survives. Sufficient original edge survives to show that the mount was 19.5mm square. Height from underside of base plate to top of collet 6mm. The most plausible identification is of a book mount, the filigree work being similar to that on 16th century globular head pins.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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