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Description: | Possibly a Medeival/Post-Medieval box fitting of copper alloy, still attached to an iron bar. The bar is broken either side of the mount, and the mount itself may be broken, but the break is now smoothed. The copper alloy is now covered in a red/brown patina and the iron in a more porous corrosion product. It measures 27x28mm and weighs 7.25g.
The iron bar measures 27x17x7mm. The end of the mount is curved around the iron bar, at an angle of nearly 90 degrees. It is attached to the bar by two iron rivets, still present. The mount has a maximum diameter of 23mm at this curve. Below this the mount rapidly tapers to 15mm, and from here gradually tapers to 7mm where it may be broken. It is 1.5mm thick.
If broken the object is similar, though less decorative, to the mounts on the Talbot casket (c.f. Egan 1998, figure 45, pg 66). The iron bar could have run around the edges of the box, as on the Talbot casket. | 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: | 1066
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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