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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy mount of Post-Medieval, seventeenth century date (AD 1600 - AD 1700). Length 20.2mm, width 8.6mm and 1.5mm thick. Weight 1.51g.The mount is flat at the front and flat at the rear and the edges are crudely bevelled. In places, on the lower part of the bevelling, there is casting flash. Each end of the mount is sub-triangular in plan. However, the tip of one end is missing due to an old break. Mid-way along its length each side is concave. On the rear face are two flat integral spikes, one at each end. One of them is on the longitudinal centre-line and the other is off-set from the centre-line. Both of the spikes are turned at almost a right angle to the plane of the mount and point in the same direction. The front of the mount has barely visible oblique striations which might be file marks. Alternatively, these features may be decorative.The front face of the mount has a dark green patina over most of its surface and the rear face is generally corroded.A similar mount from South Somerset has been dated by Read to the seventeenth century (Read 2001, 28, ref. 292).
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