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Description: | A gilded cast copper alloy belt mount, possibly of 17th century date. The mount has curvilinear shape, with three lobes each marked by a narrowing of the bar. There are slight traces of gilding on the front and decoration in the form of faint punched U-shapes. The back of the object is flat and undecorated. Close to each end there is a perpendicular rectangular lug, between 2.5 and 6mm wide. These both survive to a length of about 9mm. A fairly similar belt mount is illustrated in Brian Read's Metal Artefacts of Antiquity (p. 36, fig. 21, no. 317). On this example, which Read dates to the 17th century, one of the lugs appears to survive intact and it is bent at a right angle back towards the body of the mount, to form an L-shape. The lugs would have been used to attach the mount to the belt. Another similar belt mount (SOMDOR-EE1668) was found in the same field and the two may have formed a pair. | Subjects: | Belt | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Payne, Naomi - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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