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Description: | One half of a medieval mirror case dating to the period AD c1300-1400. The case comprises a sub-circular disk with a depression that would have held the mirror (which does not survive). At one end there is a double lug hinge and at the other end a single lug which may have formed the clasp. The outer face of the case is decorated in characteristic style with punched holes which form a leaf pattern comprising four arcs around the edge of the face creating a cross and a central line between the two lugs. Cf fig 26, p133 and p105, nos 163 and 164,Goodall, A (2012) Objects of Copper-Alloy in Saunders P (ed) (2012) Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Medieval Catalogue Part 4, Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum pp 90-142. "Small cased mirrors of this type were popular in the later thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The decoration frequently takes the same form as on [this example] four arcs of traced zigzag lines outlining a rough cross, and another traced line running between the hinge and the fastening. They appear to have been mass-produced with a wide distribution." (ibid)
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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