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Description: | An incomplete anthropomorphic post-Medieval copper-alloy mount (c. 1600 - c. 1700).The lower part is missing due to breaks.The openwork mount is moulded at the front and flat at the rear. In plan, when complete, it would have been roughly square with rounded corners. A knop at the top is decorated with a forward facing human mask. Below this mask there is a similar but larger mask. The rear face is flat and has the stub of an integral spike.This mount has a brown patina.Height: 24.04mm; width: 24.28mm; thickness: 2.71mm. Weight: 2.73g.Similar mounts have been recorded on The Portable Antiquities Scheme database. For example, see finds: BERK-84E3A7; BERK-C6EB35; DOR-0B1977; DOR-0B51F2; IOW-4843B4; IOW-A71177; IOW-B8CF73; LIN-78E708; NLM-279D54; NLM-CAD5D1; NMS-229707; NMS-9B6280; NMS-A2EBD6; SUSS-0B6613; SUSS-C06291; SWYOR-354D47; SWYOR-631324 and WILT-B60094.Similar mounts have been published (Bailey 1995: 87, ref: 10; Read 2001: 28, fig. 20, ref: 303).Bailey, G. 1992. Detector Finds. Chelmsford: Greenlight Publishing.Read, B. 2001. Metal Artefacts of Antiquity. Portcullis Publishing. Langport.
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