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Unique ID: NLM-40240B
Object type certainty: Certain
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Copper alloy mount. A leaf with a short stalk cut from sheet metal, with a rivet of diameter 2mm and length c.5mm passing through its centre, domed on the display face and bent behind. The surface of the leaf retains gilding on its display face but the rivet head does not; it is possibly a replacement. Figurative mounts of leafy forms from London are ascribed to the period 1400-1450 (Egan and Pritchard1991, 200-202, figs 126-127), while the gilding may point to a lightly later date. The form might suggest this to represent a maple or holly leaf. Suggested date: Late Medieval to Post-Medieval, 1450-1550.
Length: 21.7mm, Width: 15.1mm, Thickness: 1mm, Weight: 1.25gms
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1450
Date to: Circa AD 1550
Quantity: 1
Length: 21.7 mm
Width: 15.1 mm
Thickness: 1 mm
Weight: 1.25 g
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 29th January 2018
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Other reference: NLM38607
Primary material: Copper alloy
Decoration style: Figurative
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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