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MOUNT
Unique ID: SF-401CC5
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete copper-alloy Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) mount, dating to AD 450-700. It consists of a disc which has the front face decorated with a circular flat raised rim running along the outer edge; the flat rim inscribes a sunken relief decoration consisting of two concentric raised lines aroung a central human face mask. The mask has pelleted eyes and a long widening nose; the mask may reppresent the stylization of a war helmet. The concentric lines and mask have abbundant traces of gilding. The back face of the disc has a broken integral spike and it is undecorated.
The mount may have been attached to a shield, although the examples in Dickinson-Harke (1992, pp. 27-28, fig. 18 a1) are made of iron and lack of the particular mask decoration.
Diameter: 21.39 mm
Thickness: 2.37 mm
Weight: 4.58 g
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 450
Date to: Circa AD 700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 2.37 mm
Weight: 4.58 g
Diameter: 21.39 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 25th November 2016
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: RLM 081
Other reference: Finder's reference SS16 081
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Suffolk Coastal (District)
To be known as: Rendlesham
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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