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BOX

Unique ID: SF8420

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published

Copper-alloy mount, probably from a box. Now bent, it would originally have measured about 90 mm long and for most of its length it is 10 mm wide. It is slightly convex on the upper surface and slightly hollowed on the reverse. Each end has a terminal, beginning perhaps with a transverse groove and ridge, then having an incurved cut-out, and then a very slightly widened rounded lobe (pierced for a rivet hole) ending in a long pointed knop. The mount is now corroded and worn so that all the surface detail has been lost; there may originally have been more surface decoration. It is now a dull brown colour.

A parallel was excavated from a context of 1230-1270 in London (Egan 1998, no. 147).

Class: mount

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1200
Date to: AD 1300

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 90 mm
Width: 11 mm
Weight: 9.28 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st January 2001

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy

Spatial metadata

Region: Eastern (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Mid Suffolk (District)
To be known as: SUFFOLK BEDINGFIELD

Spatial coordinates

Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Character undetermined

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Egan, G.	1998	The Medieval Household: Daily Living c.1150-c.1450 (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London)	London	The Stationery Office	72-3, fig. 50, no. 147

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Created: 22 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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