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Description: | Medieval cast copper alloy cruciform mount. The mount has a domed centre with a concave back and flattened border from which projects four equal length arms each ending in a fluer de lis terminal, i.e.a central rounded projection flanked by outward curving pointed projections. In one case the outward curving projections from two adjacent arms meet and are cast as a continuation of each other. The front is decorated with lines of indented dots on each arm which appear to form a V-shape within a three sided shape with a flat base and angled out sides. The flat base is towards the centre and the angled sides and V-shapes follow the line of the curved out side petals on each terminal emphasising the division between the side petals and central part. Due to corrosion it is not clear that this same pattern was repeated on each arm but the remaining lines suggest this is likely. There are four circular holes for separate rivets, one in the central lobed end of each arm, three are filled with corrosion and one open. The back is plain apart from the central indent. It is 37.1mm by 36.1mm and 6.5mm thick, 2.9mm excluding the domed centre, and weighs 8.37 grams.Read (2001:16) illustrates a seemingly identical example with similar decoration, no.116, from South West Wiltshire which he suggests is probably from a book and 14th century in date (ibid:13).
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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