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Description: | A copper-alloy mount, stud or tack, probably of later Medieval date. The artefact weighs 3.76g and has a lozenge shape and slightly convex upper surface measuring 15.8mm x 15.2mm. The mount has a height of 4.4mm from rim to raised centre. The reverse is concave and the artefact has a thickness of 2.0mm at the rim. The remains of a pin or rivet are present on the underside emerging from an area of dried mud or corrosion product. The rivet has a worn break and seems to have had a circular cross-section of 2.2mm. The surviving length is uncertain due to the adhering mud or corrosion product, but is in excess of 3.3mm. It is uncertain whether this rivet or pin is a separate element or integral to the body of the mount. At the centre on the upper surface is a slightly raised circular pimple of 2.5mm diameter. This could be the head of a separate element or just a decorative centre point. The front of the artefact seems to have been cast or moulded as it is decorated with an intricate design of interconnecting curvilinear lines that form an interlacing pattern.This artefact probably dates to the later Medieval period, c. AD 1400-1550.See Read, B., 2001 Metal artefacts of antiquity: A catalogue of small finds from specific areas of the United Kingdom Langport : Portcullis Publishing, pp.22, 27, 32, fig.17, nos. 248-253.
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