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Description: | A cast copper-alloy Medieval book fitting probably dating from about AD 1300 - 1500. It is square in form with projecting terminals at each corner of the square. The central of the mount is a large hole with a thickened rim. This may have originally been a dome which has been truncated, though the patina is consistant over the whole object. The projecting terminals are flat and trefoil or lis shaped with a small central circular rivet hole in each. One terminal is missing and another is fragmentary. The missing terminal may have been lost in antiquity; what is probably a replacement rivet hole has been bored through the corner of the mount to replace the one in the missing terminal. This repair and the probable loss of the dome suggests that the object had a long working life. The reverse is concave. The book mount has a rich dark green patina.Similar mounts are recorded on the PAS database; SF-B4AB47, NMS-415D31, SWYOR-98A476, HAMP-AAD5D7 and LIN-726DF8 for example. Geake follows Egan and notes: (in the Finds Recording Guide) These objects are tentatively identified as book mounts from the robust circular convex centres which would have served to keep the leather covers from being rubbed.
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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