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Description: | A cast copper alloy mount for a Medieval casket. The mount is formed by a long slender rectangle which has a 'L' shaped profile. Protruding and integral to the side edge of the right-angled bend there is a short bar which is trapezoidal in section and has a crescentic terminal which is a broken rivet hole. The break is not recent. The main bar of the mount is an elongated rectangle with moulded terminals. The moulding is in the form of an elongated knop protruding from the side of a moulded sub circular platform which has a rivet hole in the centre. The body of the mount is otherwise undecorated and is semi-circular in section. The surface of the mount is heavily abraded and has a matte red/brown coloured surface. The reverse is flat. It measures 43.89mm long, 34.16mm wide and 17.35mm thick. It weighs 7.4g. Egan (Egan G. 1998 The Medieval Household Daily Living c. 1150-c.1450 Museum of London, London, The Stationary Office) illustrates similar mounts, particularly No. 147, however this example is curved in profile, whereas the recorded example is, flat. Egan (1998) comments that a transverse ridge as decoration is usually found on mounts dated to the earlier Medieval period, the 13th century. Another similar example is No. 139 (ibid) and this is dated to the later 12th century. The surface condition of the mount may suggest this earlier date, but this cannot be certain. The mount therefore dates to c. 1150 to 1300 AD.
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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