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Record ID: WILT-B1D18F
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gilded copper alloy early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) mount. It consists of a circular copper alloy plate (37mm in diameter) with a raised border around the outside of the outer face and raised chip-carved Style II zoomorphic interlace decoration in the centre with a central raised projection (4.95mm). Gilding still covers most of this decoration although some small patches are missing in places. To the reverse are the remnants of three iron projections.
Examples with four rivets are often associated with decorative horse harness disc mounts. Similar mounts, also gilded an…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 10th January 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Gussage', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-19531D
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A modern incomplete copper-alloy cross belt plate of the Devizes Loyal Volunteers dating to AD 1798-1808. The front face is decorated with the Devizes coat of arms depicting a castle with a crown above flanked by G R. The belt plate is inscribed DEVIZES LOYAL VOLUNTEERS. The to reverse the bent spike at the top of the mount is incomplete (4.8mm wide at the break), at the bottom of the reverse are two circular studs with flattened tops (12.9mm in diameter).
Devizes was an Association 1798-1801, and a Volunteer Infantry Battalion 1803-1808, some of the officers in the latter were in …
Created on: Wednesday 31st January 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 31st January 2018
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