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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy furniture or horse harness mount with central bevelled rectangle that has been pressed into a mould, surrounded by irregular and asymmetrical openwork. There are three integral lugs at the back, two following the curve of one of the outside edge and another at the opposite edge. A fourth lug, at least, is missing, as this edge does not continue. The mount has been sheared in half with the tapered end exposing two broken areas of openwork defined by jagged points. Since having been broken, the mount has been exposed to enough heat, at the wider end with the two prongs, to make the metal molten again. The two extensions are rounded and have melted back onto themselves.
The mount is 43 mm long, 27 mm wide and 4 mm in thickness and weighs 7.91g.
Read (1995) illustrates an example of an openwork hinge which is similar in style, but is riveted, on page 161, No.1085, which he dates to the late 17th century.
Bailey (DF1) illustrates an example of an openwork harness mount on page 88, No.34, which he dates to the 18th 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: | 1650
1800 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Tyacke | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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