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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy casket mount of Medieval date. It has a flat bilobate plate with an integrally cast rectangular strip extending from the base that is oval shaped in section. The plate has notches around the outer edges of the lobes giving a scalloped appearance, as well as a small projecting tribloate terminal between the two lobes. On the front face it is decorated with punched dots around the outer edge and in a cross-shaped motif at the centre of the plate. Three separately cast copper-alloy rivets, one now missing due to old breaks, serve to attach the mount to the casket, with one positioned at the top close to the trilobate terminal, and one on each lobe of the plate. At the base of the plate is a short collar with incised triangular notches from which extends the rectangular strip before terminating in old breaks. It is decorated on the frotn face with incised diagonal grooves to give a twisted or corded effect. The back face of the object is flat and undecorated. It measures 30.78mm in length, 23.21mm in width, 2.19mm in thickness, and weighs 3.93g.This mount is identical to an example recorded from excavation in Norwich and interpreted as a decorative mount for a Medieval casket (Margeson, 1993: no. 459). It is of Medieval date, c.13th-14th centuries AD.
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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