The Portable Antiquities Scheme
MEDIEVAL MOUNT
1200
Medieval, elongated, rectangular gilt copper alloy mount, with a rivet hole near both ends. Transversely distorted. Gilding is present only on the front face, which is decorated with engraving in an apparently non-representational arrangement: a frame around the sides is filled with longitudinal and oblique lines. It is uncertain to what this object would have been attached. 56 x 9mm. Thickness 1.1mm. 13th - 14th century
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