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Description: | A complete copper-alloy mount of medieval circa 14th century date. This mount appears to depict an animals head, probably a fox. It measures 13.9mm in length and 12.4mm in width. The front face is rounded and convex, the forehead is broad and decorated with incised cross hatching there are small projecting triangular shaped ears. There are two arching grooves, probably eyebrows, there are then two close set circular drilled eyes and a small upturned snout below these, the chin is pointed and groove represents the mouth. There is a copper-alloy rivet through the centre of the brow. The back face is hollow and the copper-alloy rivet has a rove at its terminal and there is a fragment of leather held in place by this, from the original strap or belt it was mounted on. | 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: | 1300
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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