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Description: | A copper-alloy mount of probable Medieval date. It is oval in form with flat back face and moulded relief decoration on the front face. The decoration comprises an outer border formed from multiple diagonal notches that give it a corded appearance. At the centre of the plate in high relief is a female bust with head turned slightly to the right. She is depicted with an oval face that has pointed oval eyes, a rectangular nose, and transverse notches for the mouth. On her head is a transverse rectangular headress or possibly hair decorated with multiple diagonal grooves. At each end of the hair/headress her hair is coiled up into triangular buns and again decorated with transverse grooves. The figure has a narrow neck that expands to rounded shoulders and breast. She is depicted wearing a dress that covers her shoulders and down towards her waist. On her left arm is a head/face of what appears to be a lion facing right with rounded ears, pointed oval eyes, short nose, transverse mouth and mane indicated by vertical strokes. Across her waist and running towards her right shoulder is a thick, beaded band that has a vertical column with globular top at her right shoulder and multiple diagonal grooves beneath. It is uncertain whether this is part of the figure's costume of an additional decorative element. In the field between the bust and the outer border are multiple irregularly punched dots that fill the surface of the object. To the left hand side of the field is a square rivet hole, with a corresponding rivet hole on the right hand side. The back face of the mount is flat with multiple tool marks. Behind the head and shoulders of the bust it is slightly concave with roughly finished surface, indicative that this was perhaps never intended to be seen once mounted using the rivets. The entire object has a dark green patina. It measures 40.59mm in length, 37.29mm in width, 5.72mm in thickness and 23.28g in weight.This is a cast copper-alloy decorative mount. No close parallel has as yet been identified, however its form and decorative elements would suggest a likely date range in the Medieval periods, perhaps c.13th-15th centuries AD, if not slightly later into the early Post-Medieval period.
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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