Record ID: NMS-A52A1D
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of a small gilded silver flat openwork mount, probably Roman in date, perhaps a rectangular fitting for belt or strap. It is sharply rectangular in cross-section, with parallel, straight sides and both ends broken. Two triangular apertures are present, along with one crescentic, and part of another. The reserved bars have a scrolly appearance, ending in roundels. No means of attachment has survived. One break is recent but the other is not, being covered in a ferrous deposit that has afflicted many metal objects on this site. Patches …
Created on: Sunday 19th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-2A58BC
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete silver decorative mount of late Medieval to Post Medieval date in the form of a pair of stag heads. The mount is cast in moulded high relief in the form of a pair of forward facing conjoined stag heads, linked at the antlers. The heads are angled outwards slightly. The conjoined antlers are complete but the two adjacent antlers are missing, with worn breaks. The surviving antlers are bifurcated with two branches and a circular rivet hole below the point where they meet. The stag heads are triangular with flattened oval ears with central hollows; …
Created on: Tuesday 28th March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Petersfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-B437A2
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure Case 2022 T1139 A cast silver medieval to post-medieval silver mount or badge dating to c.AD 1279-1400. The mount comprises a flat silver plate in the form of a quatrefoil with four equidistant angular projections along each concave length. A bust of a crowned head is depicted on the front, surrounded by a raised border. The bust is in the style of medieval king with a trifoliate crown with a curved band, pointed ornament and a central lozenge-shaped fleur. The crowned head has a narrow face with incised lozenge-shaped eyes, a wedge-shaped nose, down…
Created on: Monday 21st November 2022
Last updated: Monday 26th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Fulletby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-BF0DEA
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete silver Mount of Medieval date (AD 1200-1450). The object is composed of a thin sheet of silver, sub-circular in plan and domed in section. The object has two sub-circular perforations within the domed portion. The remainder of the upper surface is decorated with repeating lines of pellets in relief. The lower edges are abraded. Diameter: 5.57mm, Thickness: 0.40mm Weight: 0.09g
Created on: Friday 28th October 2022
Last updated: Friday 13th October 2023
No spatial data available.

Record ID: BM-78E59D
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver-gilt mount, perhaps originally enamelled, engraved with a bird with outstretched wings, probably representing a pelican.
Created on: Thursday 25th August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 6th September 2022
No spatial data available.

Record ID: BM-785AFD
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Circular medieval silver mount, with four knops around the outside, some damage to the edges. At the centre is an equal-armed cross with rounded ends, enclosed within a filigree circular border, and surrounded by six pairs of sub-square cells with X-shaped motifs incised at centre. Nondestructive X-ray fluorescence analysis of the surface of the object conducted at the British Museum show a silver content of approximately 96 per cent.
Created on: Thursday 25th August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 26th September 2023
No spatial data available.

Record ID: HAMP-E40707
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragmentary and incomplete sub rectangular decorative mount made of silver sheet metal, 24.4mm in length and 0.5mm thick, comprising three fragments with incised decoration to one side (the reverse side within the fold is undecorated). The largest fragment is folded in half across its mid section; the smaller fragments appear to join to one end. The strip overall appears to taper in width; one side edge has a waved or crimp-cut margin, the other appears straight. At each end of the strip are broken rivet holes on the wavy margin, suggesting that it was fixed along this side only. Al…
Created on: Friday 13th May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BM-BE273B
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A small peltate silver mount. The simply moulded outer face is worn. The unworn inner face preserves two rivets, one retaining a tiny circular silver washer. The very short rivets indicate that the mount was secured to something very thin, perhaps to a thin-walled vessel.
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 17th May 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BM-24E232
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
A fitting or mount, undecorated, and unlikely to be a finger-ring.
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BM-9D4EA6
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval belt mount formed from a flat plate of roughly semi-circular shape. The outer frame of the mount is corrugated and a circular aperture has been cut into the centre. Three shallow, concave collets decorate the base, two of them concealing the attachment of rivets which survive on the reverse holding a fragment of textile in place.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chideock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BM-9D0C9A
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Gilt silver Medieval bar-mount from a belt or strap. This form of bar-mount was relatively long-lived and dates from the late 12th century through to the early 15th century (Egan 1991, p13). The mount has central and end lobes and is missing one end lobe, which has broken around the perforation. The bar has a D-shaped section and the bar and end lobes are plain. The larger central lobe is decorated with incised diagonal lines around irregularly placed punched circular pellets.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NARC-50284A
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description:  A complete silver Mount of Late Medieval to Post-Medieval date (AD 1400-1600). The object is sub-rectangular in plan and D shaped in section. The outer edges have three upper and three lower projecting knops, one within the left, right and central portions along each of the short edges. The object has openwork decoration consisting of a large central oval flanked by a pair of spatulate openwork cells above and below. Around the spatulate cells are scroll work motifs with tapered outer edges and a single pellet within the curved portion of each. The back of …
Created on: Thursday 10th February 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 25th October 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BUC-77BEC5
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver early medieval pyramid mount, probably dating from the 5th -7th century AD. Sub-type 1viA. The mount takes the form of a truncated pyramid with four sub-triangular faces and a square top. This is recessed and would have originally held a stone or piece of glass, this is now missing. Each of the four faces of the mount are decorated with three recessed irregular triangles, around these run a border of incised lines. The mount is hollow inside and has an integral bar running transversely across the base. 
Created on: Monday 13th December 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-685655
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast silver decorative mount of late Medieval to early post Medieval date, possibly from an item of personal dress, such as a belt, or a leatherwork accessory such as a purse, bag or scabbard. The mount has a lozengiform plate, with a large triangular panel of openwork foliate (acanthus) forms, with a central trefoil flanked by curling fronds and a transverse ridge underneath the design across the mid part of the plate. The other portion of the plate is triangular, with concave sides. This portion is undecorated and has a face which is slightly recessed in relation to …
Created on: Monday 25th October 2021
Last updated: Friday 12th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-6DB9DC
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A late Medieval to post-Medieval silver mount or strap fitting. The plate is roughly circular, 12.6mm in diameter, with abstract moulded decoration in the form of a flower with three rounded petals and a pierced centre, which emerges or is partially covered by a broad chevron with an exterior margin of small moulded pellets, possibly representing a crescent moon, a basket or some other object. The rear is flat, with two integral fixing studs with in-situ silver roves. These retain a small quantity of degraded organic fibres, probably the remains of a leather strap. Circa 15th-16th century.
Created on: Wednesday 13th October 2021
Last updated: Friday 15th July 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-1C2E72
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A complete gilt cast silver mount of medieval to post-medieval date (c.1450-1550). Description: The mount is cast in one piece, the centre of which is a detailed crowned head of a king or queen which protrudes outwards in very high relief. Extending from the sides of the head, are two flared arms, each divided into three sections by two grooves so that they resemble flur-de-lis. Rivet holes pass through the centre sections of the arms with the rivets still in place. The reverse of the mount is flat, with the exception of the reverse of the head portion which is deeply concave. T…
Created on: Wednesday 15th September 2021
Last updated: Thursday 12th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Romney Marsh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-B73D38
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A cast silver Medieval bar-mount, 21.5mm in length. It has a central circular lobe with large circular perforation from which project a pair of diametrically opposed tapering arms with D-shaped cross section which each end in small circular lobes which are drilled with rivet holes. Both rivets are missing. The reverse is flat.
Created on: Tuesday 17th August 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 19th October 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-EFDB6D
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An fragment of a cast silver mount or strap fitting in the form of a leaf flanked by a pair of five-petalled flowers. The object has broken across the base of the leaf around a small pierced hole. The rear is flat, with an integral fixing stud and possible Cuttlefish mould and/or filing marks. Circa 15th-16th century.
Created on: Thursday 8th October 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd December 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-C9957B
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Partly distorted medieval repoussé sheet silver mount. It is circular, and the now-bent edge is decorated with twelve small bosses. Through the centre is a dome-headed copper alloy tack, set within a hole through the slightly domed centre; the edges of the hole are bent back along the shaft of the tack, which is square in cross-section, tapers to a point, and is bent flat against the reverse of the mount. The reverse shows the hollow bosses and centre of the sheet element. Dimensions: The mount is c.11.5mm in diameter, the head of the tack 7mm in diameter; the shaft…
Created on: Thursday 24th September 2020
Last updated: Friday 14th May 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-CE060D
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A fragment of a gilded silver object, originally circular, with a groove within a hollow-backed ridge around the original curving edge, probably to add strength. The fragment is roughly triangular, with the apex missing. The front is gilded, and decorated with a panel edged with grooves and filled with incised cross-hatching. The panel flares slightly from the broken-off centre to the edge, and the cross-hatching disappears at the groove around the curving edge. This edge is relatively rough. The other two main edges look broken (worn breaks). …
Created on: Wednesday 19th August 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 26th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.