Record ID: NCL-42E596
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy openwork belt mount dating to the mid-second century AD. The mount is flat and rectangular and comprises a solid outer frame,supporting a central panel of openwork decoration. The outer frame is trapezoidal in section as it possesses bevelled edges, whilst the openwork design is rectangular in section. The four corners of the outer frame of the mount are pierced. The piercings contain small rivets with domed heads measuring between 2 and 3mm in diameter. The central panel of the mount comprises an intricate openwork design of three stylised vine leaves and tendrils symbo…
Created on: Friday 23rd September 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CORN-B82D05
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy multifoil, umbonate, lozenge-shaped mount with four integral pointed lugs behind each of the four points of the lozenge. Each of these four knops is in the form of a trefoil and one has a suspension loop attached to it. The central lozenge-shaped boss is surrounded by four openworked trefoils, which alternate with four knops that are each punched with a quatrefoil or four annulets. Read (2001) illustrates part of a very similar mount on page 38, no. 340, which comes from northwest Dorset and is dated to the 17th century.
Created on: Sunday 24th April 2005
Last updated: Monday 6th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NCL-F82F03
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gateshead
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy openwork mount with loop, dating to the post-medieval period. It is flat, openwork and lozengiform in shape. A circular loop extends from the apex. The centre of the object is decorated with a lozengiform moulding. On the underside, the central moulding is hollow and there appear to be four attachment lugs, one at each corner of the object. It has a length of 55mm, a width of 39mm and a thickness of 5mm. The style of the object dates it approximately to the 17th century, and the integral attachment lugs on the reverse support this date. Compare NCL-97E903, which has simi…
Created on: Monday 9th May 2005
Last updated: Monday 6th November 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-76B161
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy zoomorphic mount with cast integral stud. The mount is shaped like a crocodile flat on its front with the legs splayed out. The two back legs appear to be intact but the front part of the animal has broken away. There is a single incised line running down the centre of the back. Crocodiles did sometimes appear on mosaics during the Roman period although no parallels for this mount have been found. The reverse of the mount is flat and undecorated and there is a single sub-circular stud set on the tail of the beast. The mount weighs 10.96g and measures 39.36mm in length, 18.…
Created on: Wednesday 27th July 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 10th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Saxton with Scarthingwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-29C003
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper-alloy mount. Lion head mount which, it is suggested (see ref.), originates from a burial casket. The object is conical and measures 20.1mm in diameter. The display side extends upwards in four steps. The lowest step is plain, the second one up has indented lines which represent the mane, the third step contains the eyes, and the top step represents the nose. The reverse is hollow and has a projecting iron rivet at its centre. This rivet protrudes through to the upper surface also. The mount measures 11.2mm high and weighs 4.62g. It is slightly worn and corroded.
Created on: Tuesday 5th April 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 6th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buntingford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-954CA3
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval sub-triangular or axe-shaped gilded copper-alloy cast plate mount, 7th century. Interlace decoration. Three integral rivets on the reverse. Length (flat edge to convex edge) 33.62mm, width (along convex edge) 39.62mm, thickness (inluding rivets) 5.04mm, thickness (not including rivets) 1.85mm, length of rivets c.3mm, weight 6.49g.
Created on: Friday 10th June 2005
Last updated: Monday 7th November 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Papplewick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-0392C5
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy bird figurine. The figurine depicts a bird with outstretched winds and neck curved so the head faces one side. The tail is fan-shaped with a scalloped edge representing the ends of feathers. The neck and body are decorated with s-shaped incised lines; the wings and tail are decorated with thicker and more irregular lines all representing the feathers. This decoration is on both the upper and lower surfaces. There is a broken stump where the feet would have been, this is probably where the figurine was attached to another object. Dark-green patchy patina with areas of red…
Created on: Friday 3rd June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 20th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Turweston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-02A7E0
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon mount from furniture, worn and corroded, cast rectangular openwork plate (20 x 49mm), convex with hollow reverse from side to side, and slightly curved in same way from end to end, elaborate decorated with Urnes style zoomorphic interlace, one corner broken, single rivet-hole in each surviving corner, one containing copper alloy rivet (length 7mm). Mid-late 11th century. See Gurney 2005, fig. 8 C for drawings of this piece in three projections with a cross-section.
Created on: Friday 3rd June 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elsing', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-6E5CA4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast pelta-shaped probable mount, seemingly of copper-alloy, with traces of white metal (probably tinning or solder). No means of attachment survive. It is probably Roman in date. Measures 34.3mm wide by 23.8mm high and 6.2mm thick. It weighs 19g.
Created on: Thursday 3rd March 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1D0312
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval belt mount, hollow-cast in the form of an animal-head (bear) with filed details of open mouth, ears, eyes and fur, pierced by rivet with remains of cloth and circular rove on reverse. Cf. similar, head of king and scallop-shaped, mounts from Westbury in Mills in Tattenhoe and Westbury (1995), fig.153, nos.62-3.
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2005
Last updated: Friday 19th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mattishall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-12B773
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Decorative copper alloy strip. Both ends broken. One end is birfurcated and has a drop-shaped piercing in each bifurcation. This is followed by an oval swelling decorated with engraved floral design, then the strip expands and there is a transverse row of three engraved lozenges, then the strip narrows again, to the break. The decoration points to a 16th or 17th century date. Length 51.66mm, width 13.98mm, thickness 1.52mm, weight 4.83g.
Created on: Friday 21st January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 17th June 2021
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NMS-00E3A6
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon harness mount: bar mount (15 x 61mm) with projecting opposed cusped mouldings in centre, tapering towards perforated trefoil terminals (one damaged), both of which retain angled inwards and burred-over copper alloy separate rivets (length 6mm). Ringerike style engraved decoration comprises bordering line within which are three pairs of transverse lines, one in centre and one at both ends. 11th century. Other comparable Norfolk objects have been recorded from Horningtoft (HER 42698, NMS-612A52), Oxborough (HER 1021, NMS-C7FD43), North Lopham (HER 30954, NMS-8B8393), Rou…
Created on: Friday 3rd June 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 12th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whissonsett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-8AE764
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medeival copper alloy hinge, probably from a ruler dating from 18th-19th century. The remaining part represents one part of a pair of flat machine-stamped conjoined ring and rhomboid or square, the former with a central aperture which has the remains of the corroded iron pin. Dimensions: length: 26mm; width: 18mm; thickness: 4mm; weight: 4.3g Similar examples on the database are SOM-999EA7, NLM-DF35E4 and WMID-C6DF7A.
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 25th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hambleden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-DC87B0
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy rectangular belt mount probably dating to the Roman period. The mount has cast recessed decoration on the front; this comprises an eight-spoked sun burst design at the centre and a pellet in each corner with a comma shape above each one. The mount has a foot at each end with iron deposits on both probably from attachment. The mount measures 30.6mm in length, 10.08mm in width, 7.49mm in thickness and weighs 8.14g.
Created on: Thursday 25th August 2005
Last updated: Thursday 21st January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wadworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-BD4003
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper alloy cast anthropomorphic mount, most likely a harness pendant (13th - 14th century). The mount depicts a female figure. The face has been cast in high relief with almond-shaped eyes and broad nose. The brows are formed from an extension of the nose line. An incised semi-circular line around the face creates a raised border representing hair or a headdress. The pendant narrows below the head and then expands to form the torso before narrowing at the waist. The curve possibly represents breasts. At the waist the pendant then expands to form a sphere with three moulde…
Created on: Monday 17th January 2005
Last updated: Monday 23rd November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beckley and Stowood', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-09D1C8
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of gilded copper alloy 16mm long and 14mm wide. It is in good condition with a green patina, and weighs 2.13g. The fragment is roughly T-shaped, and has a raised border c. 2 mm thick around a panel of chip-carved interlace; the interlace has traces of gilding. On the reverse are the remains of a rectangular-section attachment lug 4mm long and 2mm thick. Susan Youngs has suggested that it may be a fragment of strap-union, attached to a leather strap by passing the lug through a slit in the leather and then threading a pin through a hole in the lug. This object may belong to …
Created on: Thursday 27th October 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 16th September 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-0A1186
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval Copper Alloy lozenge-shaped mount. The object is decorated with a line of four raised circles which run across the widest part of the object.Above these is a rectangular cut-out, probably for suspension. There is a single iron rivet at the opposite end.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2005
Last updated: Monday 20th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'huncote', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-0A2E72
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval copper alloy shield-shaped mount, decorated with possible fleur de lys pattern, with circular terminal at the base and surmounted by a tri-lobed protrusion. There are the remains of two integral rivets on the reverse.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2005
Last updated: Monday 20th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'huncote', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-5CC0C3
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy mount, 42mm in diameter 15mm wide and weighing 16.28 grams. The object is circular and domed and has surface decoration consisting of six bands which radiate from the centre. The bands are filled with raised dots which become larger as they near the edge. These lines seperate six petal like sections which have rounded edges. the reverse has a rectangular sectioned shaft which is 3.5mm wide. There is an exact parallel in Reads Artefacts of Antiquity and is possibly 16th century.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd March 2005
Last updated: Monday 29th June 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-CB9F44
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast silver oval mount of convex cross-section, with traces of gilding and niello. The decoration shows a symmetrical composition with a debased palmette between backwards-looking addorsed birds with raised wings meeting in the centre. There are traces of gilding as well as of niello remaining in some grooves. There are two patches of tin-lead solder on the back, suggesting that the object has been modified.. Non-destructive X-ray fluorescence of the surface of the mount indicated a silver content of approximately 91%, with mercury gilding and niello. The piece is an examp…
Created on: Monday 24th October 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 24th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BRABOURNE', grid reference and parish protected.