Rights Holder: Royal Institution of Cornwall
CC License:
Our images can be used under a CC BY attribution licence (unless stated otherwise).
Unique ID: PUBLIC-06C327
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published
Cast copper alloy mount, hexagonal and flat, with a large off-centre rivet hole 3.7 mm in diameter. The hexagon is not regular; two parallel and opposite sides are longer than the others, making it 19.64mm long but only 12.41mm wide. At the shorter ends, one angled corner is longer then the other, making the angle more acute; the rivet hole is placed where the centre would be if the hexagon was regular and both angles less acute.
The central hole is surrounded by incised oblique lines which slant outwards from the hole. They are relatively regular around the less acutely angled half, but the more acutely angled longer half has clearly caused the craftsman problems, and the lines are irregular in length and distance from each other here.
Egan & Pritchard (2002) illustrate a similar hexagonal mount with a central rivet hole on page 208, fig.130, no.1124, which is dated from c.1350-1400, but it is undecorated.
Read (2001) illustrates an octagonal mount with radiating engraved lines and a large central rivet hole on page 15, fig.9, no.97, and another mount with an incised lozenge around a large central rivet hole on page 25, fig.14, no.187, which are dated from c.1270-1350 and c.1350-1450 respectively.
The best parallel found so far is probably NMS-FB2135.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1450
Quantity: 1
Length: 19.64 mm
Width: 12.41 mm
Thickness: 0.71 mm
Weight: 0.6 g
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 18th February 2019 - Sunday 18th February 2018
This information is restricted for your access level.
Primary material: Copper alloy
Decoration style: Linear
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Incised or engraved or chased
4 Figure: SY4994
Four figure Latitude: 50.74335493
Four figure longitude: -2.72417805
1:25K map: SY4994
1:10K map: SY44NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Egan, G. and Pritchard, F. | 2002 | Dress Accessories, c.1150-c.1450 (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London) (2002) | London | HMSO | p.208, fig.130 | no.1124 | |
Read, B. | 2001 | Metal artefacts of antiquity: A catalogue of small finds from specific areas of the United Kingdom | Langport | Portcullis Publishing | pp.15 & 25, figs.9 & 14 | nos.97 & 187 |