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MOUNT
Unique ID: SUSS-D29F17
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Terminal of a cast copper alloy mount, probably from a casket, probably Post Medieval in date. The piece is flat with part of a rectangular bar with an old break at one end and a complete terminal at the other; there is a circular rivet hole in the centre of the bar near the terminal. The terninal starts with a transverse raised collar decorated with incised diagonal lines; beyond this is a constriction decorated with four short parallel lines running in the direction of the main bar. After the constriction is a large oval expansion with short radiating incised lines along the edge opposite the constriction. In the centre of this side projects a thin rectangular bar ending in a rounded knop. It is 42.9mm long, 14.1mm wide and 2.7mm thick; it weighs 5.3 grams.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 42.9 mm
Width: 14.1 mm
Thickness: 2.7 mm
Weight: 5.3 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Sussex (County)
District: Lewes (District)
To be known as: Ringmer
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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