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Description: | Complete cast copper alloy shield-shaped enamelled Medieval mount. Square shield (with rounded base), the reverse undecorated with no obvious means of attachment. The upper face is decorated a green diagonal line running from the top left corner to the bottom right one, with a thinner line running parallel on each side, in the bottom left corner three green lions rampant, one above the other in a diagonal line, and in the top right corner three more green lions rampant arranged in a triangle, all in enamel on a royal blue background. In 'Finds Research Group 700-1700: Datasheet 12', Griffiths (1999, p.1-2), suggests that shield-shaped mounts were popular throughout the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and used for a variety of purposes. He suggest that those such as this one, with no obvious means of support, may have been used on tombs. Furthermore, those less than 100mm in height 'may have been glued on to a flat surface or set behind a metal frame; a square plate with a shield-shaped flanged cut-out might well have served as a frame for a small shield'.Length: 64.64mm, Width: 52.17mm, Thickness: 1.98mmWeight: 29.41g
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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