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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy bar mount, dating to the Medieval period. The mount consists of rectangular bar with a complete terminal at one end and a expanded block ending in an old break at the other. The terminal is seperated from the main bar by indented cusps on either side with raised internal edges. Beyond these the terminal has straight sides and a semi-circular end from which projects a long, thin, round ended knop. The terminal is pierced through the centre with the remains of an iron rivet in the piercing. The main bar is flat on top and the sides with a slightly concave underside. It is divided into three even sections by slightly thinned and narrowed waists. Each section is decorated on the front by a grid of raised diagonal lines. The expanded end is slightly thinned and appears to have been rectangular although only one end now survives. The broken edge is worn and has three projecting sections divided by holes, possibly the remains of two rivet holes. The complete terminal is now bent forwards slightly. The entire remaining piece is now 58.1mm long, 16.5mm wide and 2.8mm thick excluding the rivet, it weighs 7.94 grams.This type of mount seems to have been commonly used on caskets or boxes. Egan (1998:73) Nos. 145 and 147, which have a similar terminal and no.155 has a similar decoration, they are dated to c. 1230-c. 1270 and AD 1350-1400 respectively. Similar casket mounts are illustrated in Read (2001:23 , Nos. 165-167), dating to c. AD 1350-1400. SUSS-6C8BF5 on this database is similar as is NARC-E3FB14.
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