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Description: | A slightly corroded, small cast copper-alloy medieval bar mount, sub-hemispherical in form. The convex, central lobe is crossed by four incised transverse lines that create ridges. There are fine longitudinal incisions across the ridges. The two smaller perforated side lobes are slightly flattened at their terminals; they both retain their rivets, bent to one side at their tips.The object is similar to artefacts illustrated in Read (2001, 23; fig. 12) and Egan and Pritchard (1991, 214; fig. 134) which are dated to the second half of the fourteenth century. This artefact has a dull grey colour with patches of lighter corrosion product, particularly within the concavity on the lower surface and the grooves on the upper; the rivets, of a different alloy, have a redder colour.
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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