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Description: | An incomplete possible vessel mount or escutcheon of Roman date. The mount is leaf shaped with a rectangular "petiole" extending from the rounded end and curving backwards to a worn break. The front face of the mount is decorated with a now indistinct design with irregularly shaped recessed cells around a recessed circular cell all of which may have originally contained enamel, although no trace now survives. The reverse has a single central circular indentation flanked by faint patches of iron corrosion which may represent the remains of a means of attachment.The metal has a dark blackish-brown patina and is worn. The mount is 35.6mm long, 16.9mm wide, 3.2mm thick and weighs 5.9g.Only one parallel could be found for this object and is recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database as DENO-149754. Sally Worrell, National Finds Advisor, suggests that this type of object "is a single hook escutcheon from a 2nd-3rd century deep-walled basin as it's straight and without the curve that you'd expect on a hanging bowl mount"
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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