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MOUNT
Unique ID: LIN-7143C6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete elaborate mount, possibly from a book or a box such as a reliquary. The mount appears to have symmetrical decoration which would imply that the surviving fragment represents just under one quarter of the original object. The mount would have been square, flat and decorated with a deep channel around the perimeter. The channel is filled with plae blue/green enamel interspersed with crescents of yellow enamel. The body of the mount is decorated with criss-crossed lines of green enamel. Where each line of the cross-cross meets there is a circle of yellow enamel. The criss-cross decoration creates diamond shaped panels that are filled with blue enamel. In the centre of each panel is a short cross of white enamel. At the top near the break on the left hand side there is a damaged short cross that might be of red enamel. The surface of the reserved metal is decorated with gilding. The mount may be a Limoge product.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1300
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 36 mm
Width: 26 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 3rd April 2010
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: North Kesteven (District)
Parish or ward: Walcot Near Folkingham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF0434
Four figure Latitude: 52.8934
Four figure longitude: -0.455558
1:25K map: TF0434
1:10K map: TF03SW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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