BOOK FITTING 853528

Description: A medieval cast copper-alloy umbonate quatrefoil mount of Howsam type B.1.2, dating to period c. AD 1300-1400. This object is domed at the front and largely concave at the rear. It has four evenly spaced lugs situated at the base. Each lug has a circular perforation and there is a ridge between each lobe and the dome. All four lugs are flat at the front and rear. At the front, the dome is decorated with a cross saltire which may have been incised. A close parallel can be found illustrated in Read (2001, 16; ref. 118) for which a c. 14th-century date is suggested as is a possible function as a book mounting. Similar objects have been recorded on The Portable Antiquities Scheme database. For example, see finds: BH-922C44; BH-BCC447; HAMP3572, HAMP-5F6592, HAMP-772A02; HAMP-FDDF04; IOW-943B17; IOW-C745C2; NARC-719675; NMS-5B7B13; SF-9E9C95; SF-A310B7; SUSS-3C5787; SUSS-D0A326; WAW-4B1B36; WILT-401091; WILT-749C30; YORYM-03C976 and YORYM-63F345.

Date: 1300 - 1400

Object type: BOOK FITTING

Last import: September 22, 2022