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Description: | A cast copper alloy mount or binding probably for a casket or box. The mount is formed of a long slender rectangle which has a moulded terminal. The moulding is in the form of an elongated knop protruding from the side of a moulded sub circular platform which has a rivet hole in the centre. Integral to the opposite side of the platform there is a collar before a rectangular shaft protrudes. This is triangular in section. At the opposite end of the shaft is a raised transverse ridge with another rivet hole through it. The mount then terminates with a rectangular opening. The function for this slot is uncertain, it may be decorative or could be part of a hinge. It is unclear whether the mount once extended further. The reverse is flat. Two rivets survive in the holes. They are copper alloy and have domed heads and sub square shanks which are bent at the ends. The surface of the mount is abraded and corroded. It has a dark green patina with many patches of lighter coloured corrosion.Egan (Egan G. 1998 The Medieval Household Daily Living c. 1150-c.1450 Museum of London, London, The Stationary Office) illustrates similar mounts, particularly No. 147, however this example is curved in profile, whereas the recorded example is flat. Egan (1998) comments that transverse ridge decoration is usually found on mounts dated to the earlier Medieval period; the 13th century. Compare also WAW-201866 and SWYOR-DF7E04.
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