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MOUNT
Unique ID: HAMP-E62CC6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A corroded cast copper-alloy lozengiform mount of medieval date (c. 13th century AD). The flat mount has slightly incurving sides. It is perforated for attachment towards each of the longer ends; neither of the rivets survive. It is flat on both surfaces, albeit recessed on the upper surface to take enamel. Cells are formed within and outwith a raised quatrefoil which largely fills the field, abutting the border at one of the short apexes, and adjoined to the areas around the rivet holes. Outside the quatrefoil the surviving enamel is a mid-blue colour. Within it is light blue within a white border. Around a central pellet in copper alloy are four red pellets arranged in a quatrefoil. The palette and merging colours suggest a piece in the Limoges tradition and the dating offered above. The metal is largely covered in corrosion product with traces of gilding surviving below in places along the edges.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1300
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 44.15 mm
Width: 34.05 mm
Thickness: 2.65 mm
Weight: 10.79 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 5th August 2010
Rally details.
This object was found at Weekend Wanderers - Wendover [Hale Lane]
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: E2897
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Enamel
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Buckinghamshire (County)
District: Aylesbury Vale (District)
Parish or ward: Wendover (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP8707
Four figure Latitude: 51.754944
Four figure longitude: -0.740998
1:25K map: SP8707
1:10K map: SP80NE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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