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MOUNT
Unique ID: CORN-7740DB
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Cast copper alloy mount in the form of an eagle displayed, with head turned to the left and wings outspread. There are two rivet holes at the base of the mount, between the tail and the two claws of the eagle, that are 3 mm in diameter, but the rivets are no longer extant. The body and upper half of the wings are decorated with raised moulded squares and the lower half of the wings have raised ridges to appear like feathers. There is no decoration on the back of the mount, which is flat, and no sign of any other attachment points. The mount was likely used as an armorial badge as the eagle as a motif is so often used in this context. It is certainly too thick to have been used as a pendant.
See record SUR-F33C0A for a similar mount in the form of an eagle, which is dated from the late Medieval period to the early Post-Medieval period.
See record SF-077973 for an armorial badge in the form of an eagle with similar openwork which is dated from the Medieval period.
Read (2001) illustrates a pendant with an eagle displayed and openwork, but the decoration is much more simple, on page 57, fig.36, no.458, which is dated from the later Medieval period.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 34 mm
Width: 33 mm
Thickness: 8.6 mm
Weight: 21.05 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 21st April 2017 - Friday 21st April 2017
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Bodmin (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SX0665
Four figure Latitude: 50.45268083
Four figure longitude: -4.73417728
1:25K map: SX0665
1:10K map: SX05SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 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 | 57, fig.36 | no.458 |
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