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MOUNT

Unique ID: WMID-AB617F

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

An incomplete copper alloy bar mount dating to the Medieval period (c. AD 1230-60). The mount is trefoil shaped at one end with the terminal being flattened and waisted. It then extends into the bar, which is D-shaped in section. At the opposite end the mount flattens out again to form a circular terminal with a long, sub-triangular projection at its terminus. Both the trefoil and circular terminals have rivets holes at their centre, through no rivets remain. The object has a dark brown patina and has been bent in antiquity into a slight U-shape.

Comparable examples can be found in Read (2001: 23) see figures 12 and 13 for nos 166-67; and Egan (1998: 73) see figure 50 no. 147. However, the recorder has yet to find an example with mis-matched terminals.

The overall dimensions are as follows: 76.6mm in length, 13.52mm in width, 3.54mm in thickness and 9.4g in weight.

Class: Bar mount

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1230
Date to: Circa AD 1260

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 76.6 mm
Width: 13.52 mm
Thickness: 3.54 mm
Weight: 9.4 g

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete

Spatial metadata

Region: West Midlands (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Warwickshire (County)
District: Stratford-on-Avon (District)
Parish or ward: Welford-on-Avon (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SP1551
Four figure Latitude: 52.15707618
Four figure longitude: -1.7821565
1:25K map: SP1551
1:10K map: SP15SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Egan, G.	1998	The Medieval Household: Daily Living c.1150-c.1450 (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London)	London	The Stationery Office	p. 73	no. 147
Read, B.	2001	Metal artefacts of antiquity: A catalogue of small finds from specific areas of the United Kingdom	Langport	Portcullis Publishing	p. 23-4	nos 166-167

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Recording Institution: WMID
Created: 5 years ago
Updated: 5 years ago

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