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Description: | Cast copper-alloy heraldic mount. Medieval, c.13th - 14th century. The mount is shield shaped with the broken stub of an integral pin on the reverse. Mass: 11.8g; length: 38.8mm; width: 31.6mm. The blazon on the front of the mount consists of three chevrons, which are reserved but no traces of enamelling remain. Possibly de Clare.Griffiths comments that shields with a pin or stud averaging 30-70mm, "may have served many purposes; the famous Trumpington brass, of the early fourteenth century, shows the family arms repeated four times along the sword scabbard. Similarly, a de Montfort effigy at Hitchendon has seven shields, all different, along the scabbard. Although leather or cloth covered, scabbards probably had a wooden backing into which a pin could be fixed. Some of the armour of the battle of Wisby (in Sweden, fought in 1361) retains copper-alloy enamelled shields of this type fixed to the iron plates, along with fluer-de-lys and scallops. Originally these would have been seen against the textile covering of the armour."
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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