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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy bar mount, probably from a box or casket of Medieval date. It is rectangular in form, D-shaped in section and missing one end due to old breaks. At the surviving complete end there is a semi-circular terminal separated from the bar by two projecting transverse ridges and with a projecting triangular lobe at the centre of its outer edge. The terminal has a central circular rivet hole with the corroded remains of an iron rivet. The opposite end of the bar has a central circular rivet hole that is now incomplete ue to old breaks. From one side (bottom(?)) of the bar just before the old breaks there is a projecting, integrally cast flat rectangular arm that terminates in old breaks and has been flattened due to post-depositional damage. The fronf face of the mount and the arm preserve traces of gilding, the back face is flat and undecorated. It measures 66.07mm in length, 8.77mm in width (12.91mm in width at terminal; 19.91mm in width at arm), 3.71mm in maximum thickness, and weighs 13.68g.Similar decorative mounts are noted by Egan (1998: nos. 145, 147) and on the PAS database (for example NMS-F11245, HAMP-7DD7B3 or NMS518354), although lacking the additional arm present on the current example. It is of Medieval date, probably belonging in the 12th-13th centuries if not a little later into the 14th century.
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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