Record ID: NMS-DFF43A
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy object the shape of a human head with an integral rivet or attachment stud on the reverse, probably a Roman military belt fitting. It is heavily abraded and has lost most of its original surface. The head is oval when viewed face-on, tapering slightly asymmetrically in the lower half; the upper jawline from the ear to the chin is straight on one side and convex on the other.  It is plano-convex in cross-section; with the exception of the stud it is broadly flat on the reverse.  The eyes survive as two oval or sub-circular areas of the metal that have a slightly …
Created on: Monday 4th December 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-6F90FE
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper-alloy rectangular bar-mount, pentagonal cross-section, with a flat reverse and bevelled edges on all four edges of the front. There are two rivet-holes, one with a copper-alloy rivet, the holes are slightly countersunk on the reverse. The extant rivet has expanded ends and is now bent (length 4.5mm). The mount is 16mm long, 4mm wide, 1.2mm thick, and weighs 0.51g. Similar to Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 1138, which comes from a context of c. 1270-1350.
Created on: Monday 13th June 2022
Last updated: Monday 13th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-EE0583
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilded late 11th- or 12th-century copper-alloy mount, probably from horse-harness. It is basically a short, wide rectangle with geometric decoration consisting of three wide flat-topped transverse (vertical) ridges dividing the mount into four gilded fields. These are decorated with closely spaced shallowly oblique grooves, alternating in direction field by field. Hints of grooves and gilding on the edges of the ridges suggest that both types of decoration carried on over them. The edges and corners of the rectangle are now worn and rounded. It is 28.5mm wide, a maximum of 16mm tall a…
Created on: Friday 15th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-186308
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete late medieval copper alloy mount comprising a sub-rectangular sheet plate stamped in the form of a lozenge with a large semi-circular lobe projecting from each side, each with elaborate geometric decoration comprising curved lines and pellets, and with a quatrefoil central boss. The two undamaged lobes have at rivet-hole at the outside edge, one retaining its copper alloy rivet. 22 x (extant) 20.5mm. 0.3mm thick. Perhaps later 14th - 15th century.
Created on: Thursday 24th October 2019
Last updated: Thursday 24th October 2019
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Record ID: NMS-DD203B
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy mount, a female head in the round with a flaring round-sectioned and flat-based neck and an iron shank which passes through the full height and is hammered over a rove at the top. There are patches of tin coating at the top and around the base. Facial features are rather worn. The nose is long and the mouth small. Thick hair covers both ears and its curls are represented by horizontal rows of punched crescentic impressions. A bun is engraved with straight lines on the sides and top but the rear is left plain. In the centre of the head's right side a neatly made, …
Created on: Saturday 7th November 2015
Last updated: Thursday 23rd June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-22CE27
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Unidentified silver object, possibly a mount, complete but in two refitting pieces. The object is cruciform in shape, comprising a central rectangular panel from which project four animal-heads, forming the arms of the cross. One animal-head has broken off at the neck and is now separate; two are bent inwards at 90 degrees to the central panel, and the fourth is almost straight with a slight inward curve. The reverse of the object is plain and slightly hollowed, and the central plate is slightly convex. The upper surface of the object is decorated in low relief. The …
Created on: Thursday 30th April 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-80CDC7
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late Saxon or early Medieval copper alloy mount, trefoil terminal splaying to worn straight break, flat-sectioned with engraved fleur-de-lis on face. Extant length 32.5mm. Width 20mm. 2.5mm thick. Weighing 8.54g. 10th-11th century.
Created on: Tuesday 17th March 2015
Last updated: Thursday 16th July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-87E823
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete 7th- or 8th-century Anglo-Saxon gilded copper alloy mount, now slightly cracked and bent, with an oblique break where the terminal is missing. The broad end is concave and the whole object is flat, just 1mm thick. The front is covered with worn 'chip carved' interlace ornament, approximately symmetrical; it appears to be entirely foliar, and related to that on a disc brooch or mount from Little Snoring, Norfolk (HER 17589) and on a mount from Merton, Norfolk (HER 40117, NMS-2F1687, Gurney 2005, 744, fig.7C). There are two small punched dots on the reverse, longitudinally al…
Created on: Wednesday 12th June 2013
Last updated: Friday 29th October 2021
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Record ID: NMS-83B132
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy mount, square with slightly scalloped edges. Traces of gilding survive in the incised decoration which now stands proud of the worn and corroded surface. The decoration comprises a Lombardic letter D between four rivet-holes with its serifs curled around two of the perforations, within a sub-circular frame from which multiple rays radiate to the outer edge. Length 18mm. Width 18mm. 1mm thick. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 12th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2013
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Record ID: NMS-512A52
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment (>28mm x >21mm) of post-medieval copper alloy probable mount, circular, central part with remains of multiple radiating rays, one survives, tapering to a point. Stump of flat-sectioned spike on reverse. 3mm thick. 17th century.
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2013
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2013
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