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MOUNT
Unique ID: KENT-100B40
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A cast incomplete and worn acorn shaped mount of 17th century date.
Description: The mount is roughly in the shape of the acorn with the cap having ha, the leaf or stem detail has snapped away. The front is slightly convex and the back is hollow/concave with tow integral drawn attachment lugs. One lug has entirely snapped away to the base, the top one is mostly missing but is still there. The mount is patinated green.
Measurements: 37.01mm long, 21.08mm wide, 5.9mm thick (inc lugs, 3.56 without) and 6.61g in weight.
Discussion: This type of mount is very popular during the 17th century and many of them have been reported to the PAS, Read (2001, 29) also illustrates several examples Nos. 331-334, the last of which is a very close example.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 37.01 mm
Width: 21.08 mm
Thickness: 5.9 mm
Weight: 6.61 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Dover (District)
Parish or ward: Ash (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TR2858
Four figure Latitude: 51.27550232
Four figure longitude: 1.26756981
1:25K map: TR2858
1:10K map: TR25NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read, B. | 2001 | Metal artefacts of antiquity: A catalogue of small finds from specific areas of the United Kingdom | Langport | Portcullis Publishing |
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