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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy mount, Medieval to Post Medieval (1100-1700 AD). The find consists of an unusual composite mount made of two circular plan pieces of sheet copper, riveted together in three places by a set of very fine rivets. The front sheet of the circular mount is almost complete. It is very slightly domed, with a decorative border of punched circles around the outside edge and a sightly larger punched circle in the centre. The front has been riveted to the back sheet from the front, and two of the rivets are intact and in situ; the third is still in place in the lower sheet where this has folded back, but it has broken off from the front. The rivets were arranged at the points of a triangle with the centre of the triangle being the centre of the circular sheet. On the reverse of the mount, the back sheet has folded in on itself to reveal the reverse of the upper sheet.Underneath the folded lip is some further concreted copper alloy, but whether this is part of the sheet or a remnant of something else is hard to make out. The outer edges of the lower sheet have been slightly worn away and distorted, and are much less plain than those of the finer upper sheet. The entire mount has a dark olive-green patina. It measures 28.3mm in diameter and 5.8mm thick; it weighs 10.28 grams.It is difficult to gauge what this artefact was intended to be mounted onto as it is fairly heavy for a dress accessory, but too fine a thing to comprise a repair job. It could have been a strap mount, but it is also possibly it might have been a decorative boss on a vessel.
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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