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Description: | A cast copper-alloy mount of probable post-medieval date. The mount is of flat quatrefoil form with a pair of integral pointed lugs that protrude from the reverse. One of the lugs has been broken, while the other bends round away from the centre of the mount. The visible obverse face is decorated with a central circular depression which is surrounded by four crescentic incisions mirroring the four leaves. Within each incised field is a further, shallow circular depression. Lobes protrude between the junctions of each leaf. This method of attachment using integral lugs is characteristic of the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries. An example of this date, similar in form to this object (although undecorated), can be found illustrated in Read (2001, 34; ref. 278).
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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