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MOUNT
Unique ID: SOM-3FBAC5
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Post medieval copper alloy mount dating to the 17th century AD. The front is a flat plate with a a bilobed end, slightly constricted elongated length and an expanded triangular terminal at the other end. The seperate lobes are divided by incised line running down a short way from the top edge. A row of dots runs to one side of this line and runnign from the end of the line down the length to the trianguklar terminal is a row of punched crescnts. This row is flanked at the triangular end by two curves marking off the side corners of the triangle. On the lobes are further rows of punched crescents, possibly in spirals. The edges are slightly angled and the back is flat. Two integral rivet spikes project from the back; one near each end. Both are bent outwards 180 degrees and end in blunt, worn breaks. It is 25.8mm long, 18.2mm wide and 1.4mm thick excluding the rivets, 27.5mm long, 6.6mm thick including them; it weighs 3.07 grams.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 27.5 mm
Width: 18.2 mm
Thickness: 6.6 mm
Weight: 3.07 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt 16602
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: Taunton Deane (District)
To be known as: Milverton CP
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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