Rights Holder: Colchester Museums
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Unique ID: ESS-6B3BE7
Object type certainty: Certain
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A cast copper alloy Medieval or early Post-Medieval mount. A convex mount, square in plan (16mm x 16mm wide). The mount has a flat face and rounded corners. A lozenge forms four cusps in between each of the four corners, making a quatrefoil design. The underside has a blunt circular rivet, only 9.43mm tall. It is not clear whether the rivet has been broken off. There is an almost identical mount in Brian Read's 'Metal Artefacts of Antiquity', 2001, no. 241 which is dated from the 15th to 17th century. The published one has a longer, pointed rivet however. The object's surface is quite abraded. On the face there are remains of a dark green patina but there is also mid green corrosion product, dark and mid brown ?rust. The underside is almost completely covered in light green corrosion product.Weight 5.9g
Subsequent action after recording: Finder applying for an export licence
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: AD 1700
Quantity: 1
Length: 16 mm
Width: 16 mm
Thickness: 9.43 mm
Weight: 5.9 g
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 22nd January 2010
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Other reference: Colchester Museum OEF no. 6124
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: TM1628
Four figure Latitude: 51.908634
Four figure longitude: 1.138856
1:25K map: TM1628
1:10K map: TM12NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Read, B. | 2001 | Metal artefacts of antiquity: A catalogue of small finds from specific areas of the United Kingdom | Langport | Portcullis Publishing | no. 241 |