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MOUNT
Unique ID: CORN-499BA2
Object type certainty: Probably
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Cast lead escutcheon with a raised female figure, running right and holding shift in right hand and left arm up overhead. The escutcheon is oval in plan and plano-convex in profile, with a twisted steel cable running longitudinally and centrally through the back of the escutcheon which would have extended beyond both ends. The lead would have been cast on to the steel cable and the cable would have been flexible, allowing the escutcheon to be fitted to an object with a curved surface or uneven face.
Read (1988) illustrates a copper alloy knife handle in the form of a naked female figure with a rod up the back of the figure and a square socket to take the haft, on page 155, No.1048, which is dated to the 17th century, but also illustrates a copper alloy dagger haft with moving figures in relief on both sides, on page 196, No.1382, which is dated to the 19th century.
This figure looks chubby and cherub-like and Neo-Classical in style c.1750-1850.
The object looks Neo-classical and not Roman (Ralph Jackson pers comm).
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1700
Date to: Circa AD 1900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 40.6 mm
Width: 22 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight: 60.41 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st May 2009 - Sunday 31st May 2009
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Hayle (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SW5636
Four figure Latitude: 50.173678
Four figure longitude: -5.418567
1:25K map: SW5636
1:10K map: SW56NE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read, B. | 1988 | History Beneath Our Feet (1988) | Braunton | Merlin | 155 & 196, | Nos.1048 & 1382 |
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