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Description: | Medieval cast copper alloy mirror case, incomplete, part of one side only, 13th-14th century. Circular disc with a single unpierced, flattened rounded lug projecting from the side - originally there would have been a pair of pierced lug projecting from the opposite side; the obverse is slightly convex and decorated with a crude rounded cross made up of a double line of punched opposed triangles, with a straight line again of opposed triangles running through the cross from lug to lug. The reverse is recessed, and holds traces of the cement (probably calcium carbonate) which would have secured the now missing glass. Fine green grey patina. Length (incomplete) 35.8mm, width (diameter) 31.6mm, thickness c.3.8mm, thickness across lug 4.4mm, weight 6.71g. See Egan & Pritchard 1991 ('Dress Accessories' HMSO) p361-2, no.s 1714-6 for similar mirror cases, dating to c.1270-1350.
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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