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Description: | A complete copper-alloy furniture fitting of Post-Medieval date. The fitting is in the form of an escutcheon plate and is sub-circular in plan. It has a moulded decoration of a rose design with six large outer petals and six smaller inner petals radiating from the central hole. The reverse is concave in areas corresponding to the larger, outer petals and is undecorated.The metal is dark red-brown in colour with some dark green copper-alloy corrosion evident on the moulded decoration. The object is 29.89mm in diameter, 1.22mm thick and weighs 3.86g.There are similar examples recorded on the database, for example; IOW-EF0EB6, IOW-92F624 and HESH-C5B765.
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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