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Description: | Medieval cast copper alloy hinged mount fragment with integral loop and separate iron rivets. Asymetrical body, one loop surviving, one loop apparently broken off, two broken projections originally forming a hinge. The body is very worn, but appears to have foliate decoration. Two iron rivets, one at either end of the body. Length 33.84mm, width 25.7mm, thickness 3.5mm, weight 5.37g.
See Brian Read, 1995 ('History Beneath our Feet', Anglia) p.133, no.713 for an identical mount, dated to 1450-1600. | 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: | 1450
1600 | 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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