Rights Holder: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
CC License: 
Image use policy
Our images can be used under a CC BY attribution licence (unless stated otherwise).
MOUNT
Unique ID: WILT-C4F039
Object type certainty: Probably
Workflow
status: Published 
An incomplete copper-alloy lozengiform object, probably a spacer plate from a set of linked pins. It is flat and has a circular perforation in each of the acute angles, one incomplete due to an old break. The plate is decorated with a slightly irregular circumferential groove within which is a a non-symmetrical spiral design engraved on the front face. There are two C-scrolls placed back to back, with one end of one C being abbreviated. The space in the remaining end (with the broken attachment hole) is filled with a single spiral. There is also an engraved oval close to one obtuse angle, but other areas of space remain unfilled. The reverse side is undecorated.
The object is 41.50mm in length and 17.79mm in width. It is .90mm thick. It weighs 2.22g.
There are several similar lozenge-shaped plates on the PAS database. When they have empty perforations at either end, they are often interpreted as spacer plates from linked pin sets (compare SWYOR-6CBDC4, SUR-D866BD, SF-31F506, LIN-C1B795, LIN-8FCB77 and the incomplete DENO-1202C0 and LEIC-3EBE93).
When found with rivets in the holes, they tend to be interpreted as mounts. Compare DOR-FCD100 and LVPL-CB8BFF (with neat three-spiral decoration). WILT-B11376 has neat three-spiral decoration and the remains of two or three iron rivets.
CAM-A4DEEE has the remains of a possible brooch pin secured by rivets through a perforation at one end, with gilding covering the front of both pin and plate, suggesting the possibility that at least some of these items may have been made as part of composite lozengiform brooches. They all appear to date to the 8th century AD.
Find of note status
This has been noted as an interesting find by the recorder.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 700
Date to: Circa AD 800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 41.5 mm
Width: 17.79 mm
Weight: 2.22 g
Personal details
This information is restricted for your access level.
Other reference numbers
Other reference: SSWM 4632
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Swindon (Unitary Authority)
District: Swindon (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Liddington (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU2279
Four figure Latitude: 51.5095046
Four figure longitude: -1.68439071
1:25K map: SU2279
1:10K map: SU27NW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
No references cited so far.
Similar objects
Find number: YORYM-9BF539
Object type: MOUNT
Broadperiod: EARLY MEDIEVAL
An incomplete copper-alloy mount of Early-Medieval date, c.AD 700 - 800.
Two fragments of a thin plate remain. Both are triangular with…
Workflow: Awaiting validation
Find number: NMS-5E469E
Object type: MOUNT
Broadperiod: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Middle Saxon copper alloy mount, possibly a connector from a set of linked dress pins, dating to c. AD 700 - 800. Flat lozengiform plate with…
Workflow: Awaiting validation
Find number: OXON-FA19F5
Object type: MOUNT
Broadperiod: EARLY MEDIEVAL
An incomplete copper-alloy half-lozengiform object, probably a mount of an Early Medieval date. The object is triangular in shape with on…
Workflow: Awaiting validation
Timeline of associated dates
About Us
About our Site
Find us
The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG.
T: +44(0) 20 73238618