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MOUNT
Unique ID: WILT-B374B2
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A complete copper-alloy gilded mount of Early-medieval date. The mount is in two fragments, it is circular in plan and broadly rectangular in cross section. The front face of the mount is decorated with a central knop surrounded by a circumferential groove and a raised circumferential band. The outer edge is also decorated with a circumferential groove and band. In between the mount is decorated with intertwined possible beasts. Due to wear it is difficult to discern. There are traces of gilding visible on on the front face.
The reverse is undecorated, four incomplete circular projections are visible, one at each cardinal point.
The mount is 34.60mm in diameter, 4.95mm thick and weighs 7.43 grams.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Date from: Circa AD 700
Date to: Circa AD 1000
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 4.95 mm
Weight: 7.43 g
Diameter: 34.6 mm
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SSWM 4025
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Stockton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST9738
Four figure Latitude: 51.141259
Four figure longitude: -2.044262
1:25K map: ST9738
1:10K map: ST93NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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