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Description: | Medieval cast copper alloy mount, a seperate copper alloy rivet through the centre. The mount is oval with a rectangular knop projecting from the lower edge, the front is convex and the back of the oval section concave. The oval section is divided by a curved line running just below the central hole, above this there is a cross hatch pattern of incised lines. Below the line it is plain with a pair of short incised lines runing in from each side at the junction with the projecting knop. There are two further disgonal incised lines running in from each side of the knop and possibly an incised line across the end which is slightly thickened. The rivet is circular in section and flush with the mount on the front, the tip at the back is slightly bent over. The mount is dark greena nd the rivet red-brown with green corrosion in patches suggesting they are made of a different composition of metal. It is 13.7mm long, 9.9mm wide and 3.9mm thick exculding the rivet, 4.8mm including; it weighs 0.46 grams.Similar items are recorded in Egan (2008:121, no. 1130, 1135 and 1139) where they are interpreted as crude animal heads or shells and dated to the mid 14th to late 15th centuries (ibid:111). Other examples on this database show more realistic animal heads of which this maybe a debased version e.g. ESS-202F95 and more crudely DENO-111002 and NCL-03BD12. Similarly very crude examples like this are also common e.g. SUSS-9F3BA5 and DENO-401F44.
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