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Description: | Complete copper alloy Medieval heraldic mount. Quatrefoil in shape with four angular projections, one at each corner. Within each of these projections is a circular attachment hole. The outer face is decorated with an engraved central shield. Around the shield are three engraved wyverns, arranged along each side. The body of the wyvern at the top of the shield faces inwards, whilst its head is turned backwards. The bodies of the other two wyverns face outwards, whilst their heads face inwards. The arms on the shield show three pallets of unknown colour and in the chief five ermine. No record of these arms, or any similar ones, can be found in Papworth's Ordinary of British Armorials (1961). A mount of a similar shape can be seen in Read (2001, fig.10, p.16), but with lions rampant or perhaps salient surrounding a central shield of the same shape containing a lion statant. Griffiths (ibid., p.1), suggests that shield-shaped mounts were popular throughout the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Mounts like this one, with no obvious means of support may have been attached to tombs and those less than 100mm in height 'may have been glued on to a flat surface or set behind a metal frame; a square plate with a shield-shaped flanged cut-out might well have served as a frame for a small shield' (ibid. p.2). Length: 77mm, Width: 77mm
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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