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Description: | Incomplete Medieval gilt mount from belt or furniture, comprises short sub-rectangular plate with oblique cut at attachment end, pierced by two rivet-holes the uppermost with copper alloy rivet (length 6mm), other end with rounded shoulders flanking solid cast projection in the form of animal head with short oblique mouldings for ears. Traces of engraved lines curving upward and outward from either side of lower rivet-hole. 21 x >40mm. cf. similar mount from Carleton Rode (HER 34589). 12th 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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