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Description: | A lead alloy circular harness mount or boss which is post-medieval in date. It is 50.8mm in diameter and is 8.1mm thick. The boss has a moulded double laurel leaf style border which is damaged and bent in some places. The centre of the boss is a raised circular area which is not decorated. There is a small circular depression in the centre which may have been covered by a rivet which is now missing. The reverse is rough. There are three rivets in a line across the centre and they show traces of ferrous corrosion. Only the centre rivet can be seen from the front. The metal is dark grey in colour but is not very corroded. Harness bosses of this type could be very ornate and were often gilded or silvered. It probably dates from the eighteenth century. Similar examples can be seen in Bailey?s ?Detector Finds? (1999). | 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: | 1700
1800 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Amy Downes | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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