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MOUNT
Unique ID: SOM-E7D1C5
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Roman or Post Medieval cast copper alloy circular mount. The mount has a raised border and inner circle both emphasised with an incised line running around their inner side with a concave border between them. Within the inner circle the mount rises gradually at first then more abruptly to a domed centre. The back is plain but rough and concave with the deepest point in the centre. The edges are damaged at several points with old breaks that have distorted the shape slightly. There is no evidence of attachments. It is 36.4mm in diameter and 7.4mm thick, 1.4mm thick at the edge and weighs 10.37g.
Smaller mounts, often with lion heads, are common from Roman caskets etc where they were attached by soldering (see Borrill in Partridge 1981: 314-318 and, for example, GLO-0A4385 on this database). However as it is so plain this example cannot be securely identified as Roman. It may alternatively be a later Post Medieval harness fitting.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 7.4 mm
Weight: 10.37 g
Diameter: 36.4 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 7th November 2012
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC reciept 22096
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: South Somerset (District)
To be known as: Martock
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Partridge, C. | 1981 | Skeleton Green: A Late Iron Age and Romano-British site | London | Society for the promotion of Roman studies |
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