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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy multifoil mount of medieval date. Only half the mount survives. Originally it would have been circular, concave below and convex above, with 12 moulded lobes on the upper face. These appear to have been stamped out rather than trimmed to shape. There is a small circular hole in the centre of the mount. Its surface is tinned. Two similar octofoil mounts are illustrated by Egan and Pritchard (1991, 194, fig.122, no's:1034&1037), but multifoil mounts such as this one appear less common. They suggest that copper alloy mounts were in use from the early 13th to early 15th century (ibid. 162). A similar example can be seen on the PAS database: SWYOR-360E31Diameter: 24.9mm, thickness: 2.9mm, weight: 3.71g
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