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MOUNT
Unique ID: DENO-8E3D00
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Incomplete cast copper alloy and enamel mount of Post Medieval date. The mount is flat and circular with a central hole. Radiating towards the central hole are a series of recessed sub-triangular cells containing remnants of enamel. The enamel is now degraded but appears to have been red, yellow and either white or blue. The reverse is plain and slightly convex.
Mounts of this type are dated to the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries, c.1600-1800.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 2.6 mm
Weight: 8.68 g
Diameter: 31.84 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st January 2011 - Thursday 30th June 2011
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Derby E6947
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Enamel
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Dunholme Area
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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