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Description: | Medieval mount; fragment of very large, cast copper alloy gilt mount, possibly a mount from a casket or book. The fragment consists of a section of an openwork plate with a complex tapering terminal section. The plate has a central quatrefoil boss with incised lines indicating that the lobes represent petals or leaves. This was surrounded by four openwork, curved loops, two of which remain complete, together with a section of the third. A small rivet hole also remains between one of the complete loops and the fragment of the third loop. There would presumably have been a similar one on the opposite side of the plate, at the point of the present break. The plate is topped with a large and elaborate terminal. There is a small knop on either corner of the mount and a long, tapering projection from the middle of the edge of the plate. This projection expands to an ornamented square lozenge and then tapers to a point which may be a debased animal head. There is a separate ornamented square set atop the lozenge and a large rivet hole on the back indicates that the square section may have disguised the top of a fixing rivet at this point. The plate is of quite thin metal but the terminal projection is much thicker and chunkier. There are traces of gilding over the whole of the front face of the object but the back seems undecorated.Length 64.0mm, width 29.8mm, thickness 11.1mm, weight 33.36gSee record SUR-322ED5 for a mount of similar type, although considerably smaller. This has been identified as a late medieval book fitting.
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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