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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy harness or strap mount of the medieval period. The mount is cross-shaped in plan, missing one arm. The style of cross could be described as a cross bottony or cross flory in heraldic terminology (a cross with trefoil terminals). The centre of the mount is raised into a peaked dome, crowned with a rounded knop. The reverse of the mount is hollow beneath the dome. Unusually one copper alloy rivet survives in one cross arm terminal; the thickness of this rivet would suggest the mount was attached to a thick strap or harness, as suggested above. This mount dates to the 13th or 14th century 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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