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Description: | Complete copper alloy mount, 15th or 16th century. This mount is lozenge in plan, consisting of a an open work circle with central cross. There is a trilobed apex at two opposing points where the arms of the cross meet the circle, and a triangular knop on the remaining two opposing points. It is slightly semicircular in plan. The circle border around the cross is decorated with moulded raised dots. There is a central raised dot at the centre of the cross, and one on each arm. The reverse of the mount is plain. There is a short shank, 4.72mm long, on the reverse of the mount, protruding from the reverse of the centre of the cross. The length of the mount is 26.4mm, it is 20.12mm wide, 1.68mm thick and weighs 2.11g. Similar mounts, though not with the cross motif, can be seen in Read, 2001, page 32. | 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: | 1400
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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