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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy decorated mount with leather attached, dating to the 17th century AD (length: 41mm; width: 12mm; thickness: 9mm; weight: 7.42g). This flat sub-rectangular mount has a rectangular central platform (length: 28mm; width: 8mm) with a raised border around the edge and six double chevrons running in one direction down its length. To either side of the width at the centre of the platform, there are small parallel and protruding half-circular lobes (diameter: 4mm) with indentations in the centre also as a form of direction. At either end of the length of the platform there are triple-lobed or fleur de lys decorative extensions (length: 6mm; width: 11mm). The back of the mount is completely covered with dark brown leather (length: 40mm; width: 12mm; thickness: approximately 3.5mm), which has survived in a good condition. One complete and two incomplete integral pointed lugs pierce the leather from the back of the mount (one at either end as well as one in the centre). Overall, the mount is in a slightly worn but good condition, particularly with the large amount of leather surviving. The artefact may have been used as a type of bar mount or decorative piece to adorn a person?s belt. Similar examples are illustrated in Brian Read?s ?Metal Artefacts of Antiquity: A Catalogue of Small Finds from Specific Areas of the United Kingdom?, 2001, pages 29-30 & 34-7, particularly ref nos 272 (found in East Devon), which has three similar integral pointed lugs at the back of the mount, and ref nos 309-317, which all have a sub-rectangular form with decorative extensions at either end. | 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: | 1600
1700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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