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Description: | A damaged and incomplete cast copper-alloy medieval mirror case lid. It consists of a single slightly convex, lipped disc, which originally would have been held together by a rivet in a hinge that has been damaged through an old break. Projecting from the opposite side there is a solid rounded lug. The surviving disc is complete, but bent and consequently cracked, the crack runs down a quarter of the surface before turning at a right angle. No glass remains on the recessed inside surfaces of the disc. The external decoration consists of the outline of a crude, rounded, open cross, in double lines of opposed triangles. A double line of opposed triangles runs diametrically between the lugs from side to side on the disc, aligned with the lugs. An example of a mirror case decorated in such a way can be found illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 361-362; ref. 1715). This, and similar, date from the period c. 1270 - c. 1350. This artefact has a dark-green patina with patches of off-white and light-green corrosion product, particularly on the internal surface. The lipped sides bear vertical file marks all around.
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