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Description: | A cast copper alloy circular harness fitting: stud and mount. The device on the outer face of the mount is a lion rampant, crowned. In the field around the lion there are patches of gilding. The edges of the mount is decorated with oblique grooves. The reverse of the mount has an integral thick circular sectioned stud which has a flattened terminal where it has been fixed onto leather. The mount measures 42.29mm diameter, 11.24mm thick and weighs 2.72g.The mount is a harness fitting, or possibly a badge, dating to the Medieval period. Ashley (Ashley, S. 2002 Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk East Anglian Archaeology 101) illustrates similar shaped mounts, for example Figure 25, No. 7. The mount probably dates to the 13th to 15th centuries.
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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