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BOOK FITTING

Unique ID: DOR-8C9181

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

A copper alloy book mount. The mount consists of a hollow, sub-circular domed boss with four, roughly equally spaced, irregularly sized, rounded lobes projecting from the edge, each delineated by a raised, transverse collar at the junction with the dome and with a drilled, circular perforation. The front of the boss is decorated with a slightly recessed saltire. The rear is undecorated.
Date: Medieval - 14th to 16th century
Dimensions:21.07 mm x 32.61 mm x 11.82 mm
Weight: 13.00 g

In database record SOM-BC53E4 for a very similar mount, Wil Partridge notes that a Read (2001: 16, no. 118) publishes a similar example, identified as a book fitting of 14th century date and that a comparable book fitting is published by Egan (1998: 280, no. 926), found in a context dating to c. AD 1350-1400. Several others are recorded on the PAS database and WILT-934CC6 is a particularly good parallel.

Class: Mount
Sub class: Howsam Type B.1.2

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1600

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 32.61 mm
Width: 21.07 mm
Thickness: 11.82 mm
Weight: 13 g

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Other reference numbers

Other reference: SCMS 017666

Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Complete

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: East Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Sturminster Marshall (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SY9398
Four figure Latitude: 50.78153185
Four figure longitude: -2.10065638
1:25K map: SY9398
1:10K map: SY98NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.

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

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