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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy mount of Medieval date. One terminal end survives intact, the opposite end now incomplete due to old breaks and the surviving areas of the incomplete end folded in half due to post-depositional damage. It is flat, rectangular in form with a projecting tongue shaped terminal. This has a central circular rivet hole through which pases a separately cast copper-alloy rivet that has a globular head and with traces of iron corrosion on the back face of the mount at the incomplete point of the rivet. The front face of the mount has incised and gilded decoration. This consists of an incised border containing a single wavy line(?) that runs around the edge of the remaining areas of the mount. Within the border are incised vertical lines that produce a series of vertical rectangular motifs, some of which may originally have had further decorative elements but these are now uncertain due to the preservation of the object. Traces of gilding are visible on all areas of the front face of the object, particularly around the rivet, but the back face appears to be undecorated. In its current state this object measures 45.99mm in width, 28.69mm in length, 1.16mm in thickness, and weighs 7.44g.This is probably an incomplete mount or similar object, the decorative elements perhaps indicating a Medieval or early Post-Medieval date. It perhaps belongs in the period between the 12th and 16th centuries AD, c.1100-1600 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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