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Description: | Plate with a bar mount at the attachment edge. It is made of copper alloy and is covered in a green patina. The object has been coated in a varnish. It measures 20x10x4(including rivet)mm and wieghs 0.88g.
At the attachment end is a bar (3.5mm long) D-shaped in cross section. The plate is rectangular except for the terminal end which is pointed. The object is slightly asymmeterical.
Two rivets with their roves remain, one through the bar and plate and one at the terminal end.
No direct comparisons have been found. Those given in Egan and Pritchard (1991, plate 103) all have curved terminal edges and often have a recess near the bar mount. They date from the late 14th century. Egan and Pritchard suggest that these objects may have fastened with the bar at the end of the strap and used with a folding strap clasp. The recess would have been an advantage in this fuction aiding removal from the clasp. Object 272 Margeson (1993), dated to 1400-1600, is of two rectangular sheets riveted together with a bar mount, and may have fulfilled a similar function. Folding strap clasps were used from the late 13th to early 15th centuries.
Thus a tentative date of 1250-1500 is suggested. | Subjects: | Barred mount | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Wood, Rachel | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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