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Description: | A cast copper alloy bar mount of probable Medieval date. The mount consists of a long bar with faceted exterior surface that tapers slightly at each end and has a hollow, concave reverse face. The centre of the bar expands to a large dome-shaped moulded area with raised transverse collars to either side. At each end the bar terminates in a raised transverse collar followed by a semi-circular, globular knop. Each knop has a central circular perforation through which the remains of two oval shaped rivets for attachment to a belt or similar object are preserved. The back face of the mount is concave with a flattened ledge around the edge. The front face has traces of an added white metal coating that would presumably have originally covered the entire mount. It measures 60.51mm in length, 15.41mm in width, 6.54mm in thickness, and weighs 10.39g. This is a bar mount of probable Medieval date. Similar, although smaller, examples with central circular perforations are noted in Medieval London (Egan and Pritchard, 1991: nos. 1154, 1157-1158) and on the PAS database (SWYOR-0E4627), while a near identical example is recorded on the PAS database from South Yorkshire (DENO-E61DE3). These suggest a date in the 12th-15th centuries AD for the current example.
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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