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Title: Any ideas?? Post by: spaceonwhite on September 17, 2018, 07:48:34 PM Little find from the weekend. It's about the size of a £2 coin. I have absolutely no idea what it was. If anyone has any ideas, let me know!!!
There's a lot of Tudor & Stuart history on the land I found it on. Title: Re: Any ideas?? Post by: Bernice on September 17, 2018, 09:17:19 PM Hazarding a guess as it is flat and looks as though there was a little gold plating on it, it may be an ornamental piece from perhaps a wooden jewellery box or some such item?
Title: Re: Any ideas?? Post by: The Doc on September 17, 2018, 09:49:08 PM Interesting find. I agree it is probably a mount of some sort, and could be quite early.
Almost has an Anglo-Saxon/Viking period look to it, but hard to be certain from pictures - could be much later. Sorry, that's called sitting on the fence ::) Title: Re: Any ideas?? Post by: Val Beechey on September 17, 2018, 09:59:32 PM My guess is part of a chatelaine. Very decorative, nice find.
Title: Re: Any ideas?? Post by: spaceonwhite on September 18, 2018, 08:23:17 AM Thanks for the thoughts all. Val, that's a really interesting suggestion and I think you could be right looking at it closer, as there would have been loops running around the edge so it definitely fits with the chatelaine idea :)
It's hard to see from the pictures but it does look like it has a Tudor rose on the one side, which would fit with other Elizabethan finds found close by. |