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Description: | Fragment (about a quarter) of one half (lid or base) of a circular copper-alloy mirror case. A double lug survives, drilled to take a surviving copper-alloy hinge bar. The body of the mirror case is unusually thin sheet, and it does not have the normal rouletted decoration. Instead, rocker-arm engraving survives. This runs in a fairly straight line across the case from the double lug, with a curving lines to one side and a fragment of a second line to the other side. The decoration can therefore be reconstructed to be just like the more normal rouletted decoration - a cross made up of four curving lines, with another line running between the double lug and the single lug opposite it which is missing in this example. On the reverse it can be seen that the sides or flange of the case are very low; around the edge is some surviving white adhesive for the glass of the mirror. Surviving dimensions are given, but originally it would have been much the same size as Dress Accessories (Egan and Pritchard 1991) no. 1714. The three London examples all date from the late 13th and early 14th centuries.
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