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Description: | An incomplete gilded cast copper-alloy mount: possibly a medieval harness fitting (Nick Griffiths pers. comm. 29 April 2006). The object, in its broken form, consists of a sub-circular central element with two protrusions aligned perpendicular to each other. When this artefact was complete is was presumably cruciform, with four protrusions of equal length. The central 'boss' is slightly raised although plateaud at the top. There is a slightly off-centre rivet hole through this element with extant copper-alloy rivet head and beginning of shaft. Gilding survives well over the upper surface of the artefact; on the central sub-circular element six wavy lines emanate from the rivet hole to a defined wavy circular border. The surviving protrusions also feature a delineating transverse wavy line, with a further four? wavy lines travelling from it outwards. One of the protrusions also features a rivet hole with extant copper-alloy rivet head and beginning of shaft. The junction of the central element with the protrusions is very weak and it is not surprising that two of the protrusions have been lost and the edges of what survives are highly abraded. Whilst it seems clear that this cruciform object was once mounted to something, one has to conjecture as to exactly what that something was. The redness of the copper-alloy is consistent with the high temperatures involved in the gilding process (Nick Griffiths pers. comm. 29 April 2006). There are also superficial traces of green copper corrosion product. | 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: | 1250
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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