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Unique ID: DOR-11D429
Object type certainty: Certain
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Cast copper alloy bar mount. A small bar with terminal and central lobes. The central lobe is sub-circular, hollow backed and decorated with deeply moulded horizontal grooves. The flanking terminal lobes are much smaller and each has a circular hole containing for missing rivets. The ends of these lobes are rounded and the backs are flat.
Date: Medieval - c. 1350 - 1400
Dimensions: 16.87 mm x 10.92 mm x 2.21 mm
Weight: 1.10 g
Reference - Egan G and Pritchard F, 1991, Dress Accessories, page 213 - 214, Nos. 1160 & 1161
Class: Bar-mount
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1350
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Quantity: 1
Length: 16.87 mm
Width: 10.92 mm
Thickness: 2.21 mm
Weight: 1.1 g
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Other reference: SCMS 016649
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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