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Description: | A Post Medeival cast copper-alloy flat mount of phallic shape with two integral lugs projecting from the lower surface. The surface of the mount seems to have been tinned or, less likely, possibly silvered. The mount weighs 1.25g, is 17.57mm long and 1.16mm thick. The widest part of the mount measures 11.17mm before narrowing to the central 'waist' area of 5.70mm width before increasing in width again to 6.69mm and narrowing again finally to the rounded tip which starts with a width of 4.17mm. It seems likely that there was originally an integral loop projecting out from the widest end in line with the rest of the body of the mount. If this was the case very little of the circular loop now survives, however it seems to have had a rectangular cross-section 1.23mm wide with an internal diameter of at least 2.08mm. The integral lugs have a sub-rectangular to rounded cross-section and measure 2.13mm x 1.66mm. The lugs are approximately 7.00mm long both being bent in towards each other at just over half way along the lug. Both lugs are set centrally on the underside of the mount, along the length axis, and 7.57mm apart. The mount is post-medieval and more specifically probably of seventeenth century date.Similar examples can be seen on the Portable Antquities Scheme database such as records: WMID-A06D66, HESH-8B4CE4 and SWYOR-46FF36.Other examples can be seen in Read, B. 2001, p.28-9, 35 & 37, fig.20 & 22, no.295, 298, 322, 324 & 328.
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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