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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy mirror case (diameter: 54.2mm x 66.2mm [with hinges]; thickness: 4.7mm; weight: 29.69g). A robust circular disc (the other half is missing), slightly convex in shape with a single lug at one side and a pair of lugs on the other. The pair of lugs have partly drilled holes to house rivets (now also missing) that would have acted as the hinge for the case. There are possible areas of corroded cement on the inside of the disc to hold the glass in place, mainly around the edges near the raised border of the artefact. The disc has no decoration and there is a small hole running straight through the face. There are similar examples illustrated in Egan & Pritchard?s ?Dress Accessories: Medieval Finds from Excavations in London?, 1991, 361-362, ref nos 1714-1716. | 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: | 1200
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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