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Description: | A post-medieval cast copper-alloy mount with two integral rivets on the reverse. The mount is generally lozenge shaped in outline with large oval knop terminals extending from two of the opposite corners, one bent backwards. The front has raised decoration and the back is flat. The decoration consists of an oval shape in the centre surrounded by four groups of three pellets arranged in triangles, one in each corner. Larger pellets to each side creating two of the points of the lozenge while the large oval knops create the others.Tthere are suggestions of moulding like a leaf on one of the oval knops and it is possible the entire design is floral or foliate.The back is flat with two circular cross-sectioned rivet spikes, one near the base of each oval knop. The spikes are bent inwards so their points meet the back of the mount and almost touch each other. The mount is now 28.3mm long, 17.4mm wide, 1.7mm thick excluding the spikes, 5.5mm including and weighs 3.05g.Broadly similar mounts are with different raised decoration are illustrated by Read (2001:32), no.252-3 which he dates to the 15th-early 16th century although the example is perhaps more similar to 16th-17th century mounts with integral rivets. SOM-DA1446 on this database is very similar as is SOM-E2D023 although both have only a single rivet spike.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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