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Description: | A cast copper-alloy medieval quatrefoil mount, ornate and in good condition. The mount is lozengiform with trefoil knops on rectangular bases. Conical central boss with globular knop. The boss features ovoid perforations in alignment with the four trefoil knops. Each trefoil knop has a circular perforation for attachment, perhaps to a book (Read 2001, 13; ref. 117). There is incised linear decoration on the obverse running between the flanking foils on the trefoil knop and the central foil and along the edge of the main body of the mount. A similar, albeit smaller, example can be found illustrated in Read (2001, 16; ref. 117). This dates approximately to the fourteenth century.
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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