Record ID: LANCUM-456425
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Heavily constructed copper alloy lobed plate with two piercings through which domed rivets pass. Its date and function are yet to be determined with any confidence. At first glance it appears to be a fixing plate for a hinge. However this is unlikely, but not impossible, as both rivets appear complete and there doesn't seem to be a large enough gap for the plate to have been attached to anything wooden. It may have been originally mounted on a book, or been a form of strap end/weight, or some form of mount or fitting. Dates to anytime between c43 and c1900 AD. The length is 60mm, w…
Created on: Thursday 27th March 2014
Last updated: Monday 31st March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clitheroe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-44D627
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Romano-British mount, possibly for a vessel or item of furniture. The mount is three dimensional and depicts the bust of a bearded and horned male, probably a local representation of the Greek god Pan, who became the Roman god Faunus. The bust is well cast with all facial details clear; the horns are represnted by round stumps on top of the head and what appears to be hair above the temples; the horn stumps appear deliberate rather than being the remains of missing elements. Around the back of the head just above the neckline is raised mouldings representing hair -…
Created on: Thursday 27th March 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Woodstock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-3DFFE3
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-Medieval, cast, copper-alloy assymetrical mount with two, pointed, integrally-cast rivets or lugs. (Read pages 28 and 34, nos. 287, 288). The body of the mount is flat and sub-circular in plan with a trefoil-shaped projection of unequal size at each end. On the reverse of each of these projections is an integrally-cast, pointed rivet or lug. Each one has been bent over to secure the mount.
Created on: Thursday 27th March 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd April 2014
Spatial data recorded.