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Description: | Post medieval cast copper alloy acorn shaped mount. It is pointed oval in plan with one point broken, possibly where there was an attached stem. The front is slightly convex and the back concave. The front is decorated with three incised lines, two in the middle of the mount and one towards the intact point, to create a simple acorn form. The reverse has two integral projecting rivets; one, of which only a stub remains, just below the centre, the other off centre near the top point. The rivet near the top point is complete, comes to a point at the end and is bent over at 90 degrees towards the top. The mount measures 26.9mm long, 14.0mm wide, 3.0mm thick (not including the rivets), 8.6mm thick (including) and weighs 4.70g.Noel Hume (1972: 240, 242) suggests that small mounts of this form with double pointed prongs were used on horse harness and suggests they can be attributed to c.1690-1770 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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