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Description: | A copper alloy Medieval mount, probably from a box or casket. It is made from a piece of thick wire, about 2.5mm in diameter. The ends have been hammered flat and decorated with a chevron then two transverse bands, then a small domed area round a rivet hole. Both ends are the same. The holes have been punched from the front of the mount leaving displaced metal on the reverse. The flange of thin metal beyond the rivet hole is rounded and seems to be complete at one end, but is square and is probably a break at the other end. The centre of the mount is still circular in section and the wire is wavy; it could possibly have been bent and then straightened. The metal has a dark brown colour with patches of dark green patina. The mount it slightly twisted, so the two ends do not both lay flat. It is similar in size to a casket mount in The Medieval Household (number 146 on page 71).
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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