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Description: | Gilt cast copper alloy mount, diamond shaped in plan and flat in profile, with a central circular aperture for a rivet, now missing, which is 2.8 mm in diameter. The rivet hole is surrounded by a design in the form of a raised eight-pointed star within a diamond shaped border, about 3 mm wide, on the face of the plate. There are the remains of gilding around the hole and on the star itself, and the recessed background areas between the star and the border appear to have the remains of blue enamel within some of them.Bailey (1993) illustrates a very similar example with red enamelled star and yellow background on page 51, No.3, dated to the later Medieval period.Read (1988) illustrates a lozenge-shaped mount with central rivet on page 68, No.370, dated to the 15th century.
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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