Rights Holder: Somerset County Council
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Unique ID: DOR-B4A50E
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete copper alloy strap mount. A square or lozengiform plate with trefoil knops at each of the corners. The plate is decorated with a moulded design comprising an outer circle of pellets with a short line bisecting each quarter. at the centre is a larger pellet. At centre of the back is the stub of a single integral attachment spike which has a square cross section. The back is slightly concave.
Date :Post Medieval - c.1500 - 1700
Dimensions: 21.43 mm x 20.23 mm x 2.00 mm
Weight: 6.48 g
A similar shaped mount, with corner knops id recorded on the database as GLO-20E814. A square mount, lacking the corner knops but with similar decoration is recorded as HAMP-AD10A2.
Class: Mount
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Quantity: 1
Length: 18.86 mm
Width: 18.86 mm
Thickness: 2.01 mm
Weight: 2.55 g
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 11th January 2015
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Other reference: SCMS 016688
4 Figure: ST7820
Four figure Latitude: 50.97898407
Four figure longitude: -2.31474914
1:25K map: ST7820
1:10K map: ST72SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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