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Description: | Incomplete cast copper-alloy Medieval harness mount. The mount is flat and square in plan with a raised central lozenge, sub-divided internally into four smaller lozenge-shaped cells each filled with traces of enamel, possibly red in at least two opposing cells if not all cells. In each corner of the outer square frame of the mount is a single raised circular pellet, reminiscent of the tops of domed rivets. In between these pellets along two of the sides of the square are single circular rivet holes, with one still having a rivet in situ. The remainder of the background of the square field is stippled and the whole thing is gilded with some lost through wear. There is a rough patch along one of the edges indicating the location of the break for the integrally cast and folded suspension plate part of the mount which is now missing. The mount is unusual in only having two rivets and similar examples usually have four. An example of a similarly designed harness pendant which was likely to have been paired with such a mount can be seen at CAM-3D45B5. Dated c.1200-1500.
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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