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Description: | Incomplete medieval lead ceiling or furniture mount. The mount takes the form of the Yorkist sun, which would have had six wavy rays or arms when complete. What survive on this object are four complete rays with two entirely missing. They are bevelled to the upper face and flat to the reverse, giving each arm a sub triangular section. A raised line runs along the raised apex on each ray. These raised lines run out from a simple raised circle at the centre of the rays. There are two raised pellets at the base of each ray, which in effect circle the central raised circle. There does not appear to be pellets along the edges of the ray, though this was a common motif. The reverse of the mount is plain, but is clearly scored for keying to adhere the mount to another object or ceiling. The lead is creamy light grey in colour. The break edges are worn, suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. The mount is 40.1mm in diameter, 3.02mm thick and weighs 12.09g. The York sun was a also a motif used on pewter badges and examples of these can be seen in Mitchener, numbers 733-737. | 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: | 1461
1485 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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