A copper-alloy shield-shaped heraldic mount, dating from the Medieval period.<p class="mw-empty-elt"></p>
<p>The mount is of flat section and has a circular-sectioned rivet hole at its centre. The upper surface bears the following arms: <em>a bend cotised between two lions rampant</em>.</p>
<p>Length: 16.6mm; width: 14mm; thickness: 2.8mm; weight: 2.43g.</p>
<p>Three shield-shaped mounts from Norfolk, bearing very similar devices to this example, are illustrated and discussed by Steven Ashley (2002: 8/fig. 15, nos. 122 - 124). The arms on the Norfolk examples, <em>Azure a bend Argent cotised between two lions rampant Or</em>, are identified as belonging to the de Bohun family, whose line became extinct in 1372. As no tincture can be discerned on the mount recorded here, it is impossible to say for certain whether it is of the de Bohun family; however, it is worthy of note that the holdings of Sir Edmund de Bohun (c. 1290 - 1349), in right of his wife, included estates at Wimpole, Cambridgeshire and at Chrishall, Elmdon and Haydon*, Essex (Richardson 2004: 299), all of which are within a few miles of where this piece was discovered. This also ties in with the dating of shield-shaped mounts and harness pendants, whose peak period of production appears to have been the late 13th to early 14th centuries.</p>
<div class="fn value">
St. Albans District Council, Julian Watters, 2014-03-04 16:46:09</div>
CC BY-SA 4.0
<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/459294">https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/459294</a><br>Catalog: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/459294/recordtype/artefacts">https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/459294/recordtype/artefacts</a> <bdo lang="en" dir="ltr" title="archived on 10 February 2019 at the Wayback Machine"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190210182207/https%3A//finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/459294/recordtype/artefacts">archive copy</a></bdo><br>Artefact: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/604334">https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/604334</a>