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Description: | Cast copper alloy openwork mount. The main body if the mount is oval, with a central sub-triangular cast knot formed from three overlapping oval loops. The central knot is solid, however the surrounding overlapping loops have left a border of three open-work semi-circles, with smaller semi-circles in-between. There is a trefoil projecting knop at one end of the mount, with a further three worn breaks around the edge of the mount, presumably from a similar projection. The reverse has three integrally cast rivets, one located in the centre of the knot, the other two rivets being located towards the trefoil knop and the worn break from a missing knop. The mount is 43.46mm long, 27.82mm wide, 2.96mm thick increasing to 5.98mm thick to include the incomplete rivets. It weighs 8.57 grams. The mount is dark reddish-brown in colour, with patches of green corrosion, particularly on the reverse. The design of the mount is superfically similar to late Anglo-Saxon metalwork, however the integrally cast rivets and condition of the metal suggest a Post Medieval date.
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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