Record ID: DOR-1790D0
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy mount of medieval date (c. 14th century). This sheet mount takes the form of an equestrian scene depicting a knight on horseback, galloping left, his sword raised. Due to old breaks the horse's ears and legs, and the knight's shoulders and head, are missing. The knight is holding a triangular shield in his left hand which covers his upper body and is decorated with raised rim surrounding a triangular field divided by a slightly curved diagonal groove. His right arm is extended back over the rear of the horse&nbs…
Created on: Monday 27th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 26th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Litton Cheney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-1041D8
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unusual porcine fitting of the insular La Tène tradition, probably dating from the 1st century BC to 1st century AD. It is possible this fitting is for a vessel, but it is so far unparalleled in type. There are two other ‘head’ fittings known (OXON-6E3722 and HESH-06696B), but they are very different in design, and this find does not appear to be related to them. The lack of the portrayal of tusks, a hint of a dorsal ridge and large, pointed, forward facing ears are not definitive enough to label this example a wild boar, and so it is classed as a porcine of mix…
Created on: Wednesday 25th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 13th September 2023
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Record ID: DEV-6CD12E
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late early-medieval openwork copper-alloy zoomorphic mount, possibly from a strap or horse harness, dating to the 11th century AD. The mount is in the form of an animal's head and is convex on the front and hollow on the reverse. At the mount's upper edge two small, rounded projections are placed in the corners to represent the animal's ears. The animal then has a protruding hemispherical face that has two recessed swirls at the top for the eyes and a flaring triangle in the centre for the nose. Above the eyes are shallowly moulded recurving curls connected…
Created on: Thursday 7th July 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 19th October 2022
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Record ID: SF-3E87B6
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy possibly Medieval mount, dating to AD 1200-1250. It consists of a slightly tapering rectangular plate, which has a rectangular cross-section and an ornate loop protruding from the top edge; the lower edge has an old break now worn. The front face of the loop bears a moulding depicting a ribbon, which is centered on the top edge. Below the circular hole of the loop, on the front face of the plate there is a cast motif depicting an open hand emerging from a possible cloud. The surfaces are gilded, although on the back face little of the covering survives. "…
Created on: Wednesday 13th February 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 13th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dedham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-54496A
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragmentary copper-alloy mount, probably a 'binding strip' of medieval date. At one end is the remnant of an oval expanded boss, hollow backed and perforated for attachment; it has broken across the hole (c. 3.8 mm wide). From the rounded end of the boss the strip emerges centrally, narrow compared to the boss. The strip continues straight (though in profile it has been distorted, probably as a result of old damage) until it expands into a loop which, again, has been broken across. This latter may have been for attachment, or may have been decorative. The strip is a sub-rectangu…
Created on: Monday 5th December 2016
Last updated: Friday 2nd February 2018
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Record ID: PAS-8CDB9D
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete or fragmentary copper-alloy mount of probable medieval to post-medieval date. The mount is flat and has stepped long edges formed of conjoined trapezoids that decrease in size: three such trapezoids survive to form the present object. The smallest trapezoid forms the terminal of the object and is bifurcated at its own terminal. It is also covered in an applied thin white metal sheet, which extends, abraded, into the adjacent trapezoid. On the reverse, at the terminal, is an integral rivet. The object has been curved in profile, and has been bent downwards in particu…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Sunday 7th February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8CD5E6
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy plate, presumably from a strap, of probable medieval date. The plate is broadly rectangular, rounded at the surviving corners, having been abraded, and broken at the other short end where it has been bent upwards slightly as a result of old damage. The front is quite heavily scratched but appears to be undecorated. At the extant corners two integral rivets are present on the reverse. These have hammering marks between them. The object generally has a brown patina. It measures 27.7mm long by 13.5mm wide by 2.1mm thick; it weighs 4.53g
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Monday 8th February 2016
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Record ID: SOM-DC5621
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy sexfoil mount dating to the period c. AD 1500 - 1700. The mount has a moulded rim which follows the outline of a flower and a moulded sexfoil design on the obverse surface. Both the obverse and reverse exhibit holes from miscasting. The reverse exhibits a line of three integral truncated attachment lugs. The rim is damaged and both sides are corroded. Length: 35.6mm, Width: 32.8mm, Thickness: 3.1mm and Weight: 9.63g. Read (2001:33), illustrates two similar mounts, no.s 271 and 272, which he dates to the 17th century AD.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd June 2015
Last updated: Friday 2nd October 2020
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Record ID: SOM-DA36F5
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy mount or hooked strap fitting. The upper part of the fitting is in the form of a bar, the base of which curves back to form an open loop or hook. The upper bar is triangular in cross-section with a flat back and projecting at 90 degrees from the back are two integral rivets to attach it to the strap. One rivet is at the top of the bar, the other one above a slight waist leading to the hook. Length 37.6mm and Width 5.5mm. The bar is 5.5 mm thick, 7.2mm across the rivets and 15.1 mm to the tip of the hook. Egan and Pritchard (1991: 155-6) illust…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd June 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 1st December 2015
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Record ID: PAS-2568AF
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy mount of post-medieval date. The mount is oval in form and convex with a central integral stud of square cross-section on the lower surface. The shank of the stud has a blunted tip and has been bent to one side as a result of old damage. The mount has a general dull grey/green surface over metal that appears to be red-brown in hue. Many such mounts have been recorded on the PAS database, for example HAMP-3E53B6. The mount plausibly functioned as a strap-fitting or possibly as a furniture stud. It measures 20.7mm by 11.6mm by 9.0mm 'high', including the stud. It weigh…
Created on: Sunday 11th January 2015
Last updated: Friday 20th February 2015
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Record ID: SUR-ADA177
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an early medieval openwork mount dating to the 11th century. The upper part of the mount survives and displays a facing animal head with prominent nose and large ears, comparable with the en-face animal heads on stirrup-strap mounts of Williams's Class B. It can be compared with an example from Suffolk recorded on this database: SF-1BADBE.
Created on: Thursday 18th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 15th April 2016
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Record ID: SOM-22EDE6
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval cast copper-alloy mount with two integral rivet spikes on the back. The mount is an openwork cross fleuretty in shape with a central lozenge from the corners of which project four arms each of which split into a trefoil fleur at the end; the outer petals curl over inwards and touch the petal of the next fleur. The outer edge is shaped to the petals. The centre is moulded on the upper surface and is a quatrefoil flower with central pellet. The back is flat. The attachment spikes are circular in cross-section, they taper from the base but both are broken with little sur…
Created on: Wednesday 6th August 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 12th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wincanton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F8E344
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded post-medieval cast copper-alloy mount of c. 17th-century date. It has a flat trapezoidal body with bevelled edges on its upper surface. From the narrower end of the body an initially wider triangular protrusion emerges. From the wider end of the body is an initially narrower circular protrusion. From the flat back two integral prongs would have emerged. One no longer exists; its attachment scar is located at the centre of the circular terminal. A prong emerges from one of the bases of the triangular terminal, as such completely off centre. The prong curves inward to the cen…
Created on: Monday 4th August 2014
Last updated: Monday 4th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wincanton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F89F5C
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded post-medieval cast copper-alloy mount of 17th to 18th-century date. It has a flat oval body. From each shorter end of the body protrude a slightly raised trefoil terminal and flared terminal respectively. Each terminal features a pair of crude grooves to delineate the designs. From the flat back emerge two integral prongs. These spring from circular bases at the trefoilate terminal and the junction of the body with the other terminal. Only stubs of the prongs survive; they appear to be of rectangular cross-section. This mount has corroded to a red/brown colour. Such mounts …
Created on: Monday 4th August 2014
Last updated: Monday 4th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wincanton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F5A039
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy mount of uncertain date. It is symmetrical, formed of a sub-rectangular central plate with rounded triangular protrusions at each short end. It is thin, flat, and plain on both surfaces. The long sides both feature a semicircular cutout centrally. At the ends of the triangular protrusions is a small perforation for attachment; one of the holes has abraded through. The object has a dark-green patina where it survives but is otherwise corroded and lighter.
Created on: Friday 23rd May 2014
Last updated: Monday 2nd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carhampton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-56EBE2
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A broken and now incomplete post-medieval mount, probably a strap-fitting, with a pair of integral prongs. The mount is sub-rectangular in form with trefoilate short ends decorated in openwork. Most of one of the openwork ends has been broken off at its junction with the main rectangular plate, with the vestiges bent under the plate to one side; there is a small stub at the other side. The openwork ends are decorated with back-to-back kidney shaped cutouts below and either side of a lozengiform cutout. Small triangular mouldings protrude from the cusps of the extant trefoilate end. Th…
Created on: Wednesday 9th April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 9th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milverton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-EFE752
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rectangular object, probably a mount, cast in copper alloy of probable late early-medieval date (c. 9th/10th century AD). Broadly rectangular, it has slightly concave long sides. Both short ends are slightly ragged with irregular protrusions, it is unclear whether these are unfinished or old breaks. It is probable the object previously continued below the lower edge where there is the stub of a projection which is narrower than the existing piece. A zoomorphic design fills the field which is bordered all around with a plain raised border. Made in sunken low relief the device is a…
Created on: Thursday 27th February 2014
Last updated: Monday 28th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huish Episcopi CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-914264
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A broken copper-alloy mount of post-medieval date, though it is uncertain to what it would have belonged. Formed of one piece the object has two zones, the smaller a thinner handle-like end, broken and slightly bent and twisted one way following old damage. From this smaller end (general W.: c. 8.6mm) the object begins to widen before a transverse groove on the upper surface which divides the handle end from the larger zone. The larger end continues to expand very gradually along its length, attaining a width of 17.4mm at an old ragged break. The mount has a rectangular cross-secti…
Created on: Friday 17th January 2014
Last updated: Monday 2nd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cullompton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: HAMP-850B60
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy mount of post-medieval date (c.AD 1600-1750), plausibly a harness fitting. The mount has a heart-shaped plate that is very shallowly convex at the front and concave at the rear. At the narrow end there is an integral fleur-de-lis-shaped protrusion, bent down slightly at the tip. The central element of this feature is pointed and the two side fleurs are small and rounded, set at right angles to it. There is a V-shaped groove on the upper surface of the mount about halfway along which gives more definition to the heart shape. Below this, and above the lis terminal, …
Created on: Wednesday 11th December 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 11th December 2013
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Record ID: HAMP-83BBB0
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small copper-alloy post-medieval mount in the form of a fleur-de-lis. The central fleur is pointed, while the lateral ones are lobes set at right angles to it. They are delineated by V-shaped grooves between them on the upper surface. A large expanding lobe emerges from the base of the lis and is rounded at its end. The sides of the mount are bevelled subtly on the upper surface; the lower surface is flat. Emerging from the reverse of the central fleur is a truncated integral prong of rectangular cross-section, now vestigial. This is the only obvious means of attachment. Post…
Created on: Wednesday 11th December 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 11th December 2013
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