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Description: | Post Medieval copper alloy bridle boss, with one of the two rivets still in place. The fitting is broadly circular in plan with a raised central dome and a flat outer border. The outer edge of the border has six rounded projecting knops evenly spaced around the edge alternating with six broader but less projecting semi-circular knops between. The knops are linked with moulded decoration but due to corrosion the pattern is no longer clear, probably floral. The central dome is decorated with twenty regularly spaced rectangular strips radiating down to the outer border from a central raised knop which is encircled by two raised rings. The central raised dome has a diameter of 36.0mm and the flat outer border has a diameter of 60.0mm, including the knobs. The back is of the dome is concave.The remaining rivet is copper alloy with a shallow domed head visible on the front of the mount where it goes thorugh the border and a circular sectioned shank ending in a flat end. The shank of the rivet is encirculed in iron corrosion, possibly the remains of an iron bridle part it was attached to. There is a circular hole through the border for a second rivet on the opposite side of the mount from the remaining one.The border edge has a thickness of 3.6mm, the fitting is 31.2.mm thick in total inculding the rivet, 18.3 excluding it and weighs 54.79gRead (2001:38) illustrates a similar example, no.345, dated to the 17th century, although that example has openwork cutouts on the domed centre.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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