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Description: | Medieval two piece cast copper alloy mirror case with small fragments of glass and traces of cement. This consists of two cast discs, each with a single lug on one side and a pair on other. On one disc the single lug, and on the other the pair of lugs, are pierced - these are drilled through to take a copper alloy rivet which acts as a hinge. The hinge still moves freely. The recessed internal surfaces of both discs retain traces of a white cement around the edges (probably calcium carbonate) which would have held the mirror glass in place. The outer surface of each disc is decorated with a design of "the outline of a crude, rounded, open cross in double lines of punched, opposed triangles, with a pair of similar, straight lines running diametrically between the lugs from side to side" (see "Dress Accessories" p361). There are some tiny loose fragments of dark reddish brown opaque glass with the mirror (total weight c.0.4g). The edge of one of the discs (that with one pierced lug) is cracked. Length 43.34mm, width 30.92mm, thickness c.6.5mm, weight (not including glass fragments) 16.01g. See Egan & Pritchard's "Dress Accessories c.1150-1450" (1991, HMSO) pp361-2 for more information on such mirrors, including three excavated examples, all from contexts dating to c.1270-1350. | 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: | 1270
1350 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rachel Atherton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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