Record ID: SUSS-03D78D
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a copper-alloy, openwork, cast Roman mount of the 'trompetenmuster' style. The style dates to the second and third centuries AD, and is a common feature in Roman metalwork. The mount would have likely been rectangular in plan, when complete, with four adjoining trumpet motifs. What survives of the reverse has a single lug, otherwise it is plain. There are some almost complete examples of this type of mount on the PAS database: WILT-9EB5E6 and BM-B75D68. See Von Jenny, W.A. (1935) Keltische Metallarbeiten aus Heidnischer und Christlicher Zeit for details on the 'tromp…
Created on: Tuesday 31st July 2018
Last updated: Thursday 21st February 2019
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Record ID: SUSS-9D22FD
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete copper alloy, Roman, circular mount, AD.50-100. Circular mount with concentric rings around a central knop. There are four rings with an outer flanged rim that protrudes to the reverse of the object whic is otherwise undecorated aside from a small central depression. There are no rivet holes on the disc thought two thirds of the outer ring have been lost. The mount has a dark olive green colour from surface oxidation. The mount is similar to one found in Crummy 1981, no.4037, given an early Roman date in the 1st century. Crummy states this may be military in origin, thou…
Created on: Monday 16th May 2016
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2016
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