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Description: | Mount, probably a decorative ornament from a strap, with two sharp bent-over pins extending from the back on the longitudinal axis, indicating sixteenth century work. This is an openwork mount, consisting primarily of a large equal-leaved quatrefoil, giving the object a slightly archaic, quasi-fifteenth-century appearance. The quatrefoil is completely pierced leaving the shape open within, with angled retruns from each lobe or leaf rather like the quatrefoil lights in perpendical window-tracery. One of the fastening pins is attached to the back of a short lobe which extends from the outer edge of one of the leaves, and the other pin is fixed behind a lobe of double length which extends opposite that point. The whole mount is 32.5mm long, the quatrefoil is 18mm across, formed of its outlining bar of 3mm breadth and 1mm thickness. | 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: | 1475
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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