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Description: | A Medieval, c. AD 1150 to c. AD 1400, incomplete fragment of a gilded copper-alloy box mount. This fragment weighs 3.53g and is a flat 'Y' shape with worn breaks at both ends. Thickness is 2.1mm, length is 25.6mm and maximum width is 21.9mm. The tail of the 'Y' accounts for 15.5mm of the total length, has a width of 10.8mm at the top and tapers to 9.2mm at the break, which starts to curve upwards. This fragment has a flattened 'D' shaped cross-section, the underside being flatter than the silghtly curved upper surface. The upper surface has small patches of gilding surviving however the presence of striations suggests that abbraisive action may have removed part of the upper surface. This may explain the absence of patches of the green patina. The curved upper part of the 'Y' represents an incomplete roundal through which a rivet would have attached the mount to a box. The rivet hole can be estimated to have had a diameter of approximately 5.7mm.See Egan, G., 1998 The Medieval Household: Daily Living c.1150-c.1450 (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London) London : The Stationery Office, pp.65-84, fig.47-57, nos. 139-141, 143, 149, 150, 160, 168-195, 200-201.Also see Griffiths, D., Philpott. R. and Egan, G., 2007 Meols: The Archaeology of the North West Wirral Coast Oxford : Oxford University School of Archaeology, pp.167-169, pl.31, nos.2088, 2093, 2095, 2096 & 2099.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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