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Description: | Gilded copper alloy mount, consisting of two rectangular plates held together by three rivets. The front one is thicker and has a relief full length female (probably) figure with hands joined on the breast. The full length gown has vertical lines incised on it above the belt and a central band of two lines with cross lines to form a beaded effect below it. The long edges are notched. The dome-headed rivets are above the shoulders and in the centre of the bottom of the figure. The front plate is 49mm long, 13mm wide and the flat part is just over 1mm thick with the relief adding some 3mm. There are traces of gilding overall but none survives on the higher areas and it is not certain that the rivet heads were gilded. The back plate is a thin sheet 53 by 14mm, 0.5mm thick; the bottom edge is folded over forwards, probably to take a fine hinge bar? This plate is also gilded on the back and sides and continuing over the folded area to the front. The gap between the two plates is under 1mm where the back is not distorted. The whole object is slightly bent lengthways, perhaps damage. This is a finely made ornate object and may be more closely datable within the medieval period by the costume; function uncertain. James Robinson, BM, suggests probably 13th century . | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1066
1540 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Jude Plouviez | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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