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Description: | A cast copper-alloy mount of post-medieval date, probably 17th or 18th century. The mount is oval in plan with a projecting acorn knopped stem emerging from its base. A further projection at the top of the mount has clearly broken off. The front of the mount has moulded decoration which is much worn but which appears to depict a forward facing human face within an oval border. A very similar mount, recorded as LEIC-482996 on this database, is better preserved and appears to depict an angel, with the oval border forming a pair of wings, and that may have been the case in this instance. On the reverse of the mount there is a broken attachment lug on the reverse of the acorn knop. A further attachment lug is likely to have been situated at the top of the mount, on the projection which is now missing, as can be seen on the other aforementioned example. Where the surface patina remains the mount is of a dark green to pale green colour, but much of the mount is abraded and here the metal has a purple brown hue. The incomplete mount measures 28.97 mm long, 20.55 mm wide, 2.45 mm thick and weighs 3.9 grams.
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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