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MOUNT
Unique ID: WILT-89EE1E
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A medieval copper alloy figurative, flat mount with a separate rivet dating to c Ad 1270-1350. The mount comprises a convex shield shaped copper alloy mount which has been decorated with a face and topped with a decorative crown or hat. The face comrpises a mouth with lines running diagonal outwards from the nose (perhaps depicting a moustache) a raised nose and triangular eyes with eyebrows above and a rivet between them. The crown or hat comrpises three sections each with a central raised triangular shape with raised ribs either side. The 'neck' appears to be truncated. On the back, the mount is undecorated but there is a concavity where the face is depicted on the front. Above this there is a rim with the crown or hat standing proud on the front. There is evidence of the remains of the rivet protruding throught the back. The mount weighs 1.77g and measures 17mm in length, 12.44mm in width and 4.95mm in height across the rivet and the front of the face. Cf Read, B, 2001, Metal Artefacts of Antiquity Volume One, Portcullis Publishing, Langport, p 17, Fig 11, Nos 136 and 137.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1270
Date to: Circa AD 1350
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 17 mm
Height: 4.95 mm
Width: 12.44 mm
Weight: 1.77 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SSWM 5059
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Basingstoke and Deane (District)
To be known as: St Mary Bourne
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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