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Description: | A cast copper-alloy mirror case of the 13th-14th centuries.The artefact consists of two decorated discs that form a hinged metal-cased compact mirror. Each is a cast disc, with a flat decorated exterior surface and a flat interior recessed within walls measuring approximately 2-3mm. Each disc has a double lug projecting from the exterior of one side, and a single lub projecting from the opposite side of the disc. The hinge was formed by the placement of a single lug from one disc between the double lugs of the other, and connecting them with an axel bar. The lugs on the opposite side functioned as a clasp.The interior of the case is missing any trace of the original mirror, although white concretion is found along the perimeter of the interior of one disc and may be the remains of the calcium carbonate cement that would have held the mirror in place. There is also a clear circular shape inside the white concretion, almost certainly indicating the placement of the mirror in this disc.The exterior surface of both discs is decorated with double lines of punched opposed triangles to form the outline of a rounded, open cross. Egan and Pritchard (1991: 362, no 1715) illustrate an example with similar decoration from a context dated to 1270-1350 AD.
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