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Description: | A complete copper-alloy closed mirror case, circular in shape, measuring 31mm in diameter. This mirror case consists of two slightly convex cast discs with a single lug on one side and a pair on the other. One pair of lugs on one disc are drilled through (a secondary process after casting) for a copper-alloy rivet which acts as a hinge. The other pair of lugs on the other disc are undrilled and when closed the interconnection of the unpierced lugs provided an effective curb on lateral movement between the discs. These lugs could also have a cord or chain around them to keep the case closed when it was not in use. Both of the outer faces of this mirror case are decorated with a crude, rounded open cross formed of double lines of punched opposed triangles, there is also a pair of similar straight lines running diametrically between lugs from side to side. Similar cases have been found in London of an identical size and with identical decoration, indeed these mirrors may have been mass produced and are medieval in date (Egan and Pritchard, 1991, 361-362, fig 241).
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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