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Description: | An Early Medieval copper alloy cruciform mount of 6th to 10th century date. The cruiciform if formed of four projections emanating from a raised convex boss in the center. The projections all have concave sides and have rounded terminals. Each terminal has been perforated with an irregular circular rivet holes, all of which retain an iron rivet. The central boss is decorated with four small drilled circular perforations. The reverse of the boss is concave and appear of show signs of gilding.The mount is 23.6mm long, 23.5mm wide, 6.9mm thick and weighs 6.82grams.A mount of a similar shape with rivet holes in the protrusion can be seen on the database as dated to the 6th century AD, DENO-A99AB3 and BH-9316D2 both of which are copper alloy but are more highly decorated. However, NMS-F6B515 which has a similar boss to this example has been dated to the late Early Medieval period, the10th to 11th century. This mount has therefore been given a general Early Medieval date.An extremely similar mount was found along side this one and has been recorded on the database as KENT-918F8E.
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