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MOUNT
Unique ID: WILT-6C70BD
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A tinned copper alloy post medieval asymmetrical flat mount dating to the period c. AD 1550 - 1700. The mount consists of a central lobe broadly trapezoidal in shape which narrows towards the top and is separated by a horizontal groove from a sub-oval lobe which is in turn separated by a groove from a smaller sub-circular lobe. Below the wide end of the central trapezoidal lobe the mount narrows and terminates in a sub-triangular lobe. The reverse of the mount is flat and features one intact integral hemispherical loop and a cylindrical integral lug which terminates in an old break.
The mount measures 26.08mm in length, 8.62mm maximum width, 4.48mm minimum width, is 2.21mm thick (not including integral lugs) and weighs 2.33g.
The mount is similar in design to pp. 35, fig. 20, no.292 in Brian Read's Metal Artefacts of Antiquity.
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 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 26.08 mm
Width: 8.62 mm
Thickness: 2.21 mm
Weight: 2.33 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SSWM 4805, 39Y
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: White metal coated
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Salisbury
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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