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Description: | A gilded copper-alloy mount shaped like an acorn with pointed integral lugs, likely from the 17th century. The front is slightly convex and the back is slightly concave with the integrally pointed attatchment lugs one near either end. Both lugs are mostly complete and curled downards towards the body of the acorn.. The acorn is an elongated oval shape with a thinner 'nut' finishing in a projecting knop at the bottom, and a broader cup at the top covered in a raised decoration of pellets arranged in a chequerboard pattern with a plain line at the top of the cup. At the centre of the top of the cup is a projectng stem, the end of which bends off to the left. The front of the mount is gold with mottled patches of light green where the gilding has worn away, the reverse is the light green patina one would expect from a copper-alloy object. A number of acorn shaped mounts with integral pointed lugs are illustrated by Brian Read (2001, 29) who gives them a 17th century date, although some are noted from sites as early as late medieval (Goodall 2012, 105 in Saunders 2012). Many similar examples exist on the database such as SUR-A15E6C and SOM-20F43F.Measurements: 37.53mm long, 17.65mm wide and 3.41mm thick (with lugs projecting 4.13mm from the back of the mount) and 6.18g in weight
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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