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Description: | Probably an incomplete cast copper alloy medieval mount. The asymmetrical openwork mount is hourglass shaped in plan. It has one complete and one incomplete rivet hole at one end with two notches in between. Below the rivet holes is a tapering openwork area of two conjoined oval holes with an internal projection at the top and bottom. The waisted area below has a central rivet hole with an external projection on either side and terminates with two openwork semi-circles with a notch in between. The surface of the mount is quite worn but the waisted area has gilded rope work decoration around the semi-circles. The length is 26.2mm, the width is 20.2mm, the thickness is 2.1mm and the weight is 3.92g. | 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: | 1400
1540 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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