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Medieval mount; heart-shaped lead alloy mount
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Derby Museums Trust, Anja Rohde, 2009-04-17 12:03:57
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Medieval mount; heart-shaped lead alloy mount
Description
English: Medieval mount; cast lead alloy mount of probable late medieval or early post medieval date. The mount is in the shape of a heart, decorated over both faces with moulded, raised, cross-hatched lines. It has a single iron rivet in the centre.

Height 16.1mm, width 15.2mm, thickness (plate) 2.1mm, thickness (inc rivet) 5.8mm, weight 2.19g

Ref: compare Ref: Egan and Pritchard ‘Dress Accessories: Medieval finds from excavations in London’ (pp. 202 & 203, nos. 1095) for lead/tin figurative mounts of similar feel.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Nottinghamshire
Date between 1400 and 1600
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1400-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1600-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 253022
Old ref: DENO-8443F5
Filename: E6400 mount heart.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/207734
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/207734/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/253022
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