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Description: | Complete but heavily worn copper-alloy mount with enamel decorated probably dating to the late Iron Age or early Roman period. The mount is rectangular and flat in section but now bent out of shape. The reverse is plain with no obvious means of attachment identifiable.The front carries a design formed of recessed cells, infilled with enamel, bordered by raised copper-alloy borders and with the whole mount having a raised rectangular border around the perimeter of the mount. The design is curvilinear in form, possibly inteneded to be floral with the basic design consisting of four crescent shaped cells with curling tendril scrollwork between and around these crescents. Traces of the enamel infil are still present, namely black or deep blue around the outer margins and traces of a yellow or white enamel within the interior of the design.The curvinlinear style of the design is reminiscent of Iron Age La Tene art, motifs which continued into the early Roman period.No good parallel for this mount was identified but similar types of enamelled rectangular plate mounts with no obvious means of attachment, of a similar dating can be seen on the PAS database under LIN-535576, LVPL-BDF517, SWYOR-D45013 and YORYM-00C688 although these are mostly of a chunkier profile.This mount as been provisionally dated to the late Iron Age to early Roman period, c. 100 BC-AD 200.
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