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Description: | Late medieval or early post medieval belt mount or possibly buckle plate. The object is incomplete, it is formed of a sheet of copper alloy with at least one broken edge and rivets in two of the corners. The sheet is 19.7mm long, 25.2mm wide and 0.8mm thick, there is some substance attached to the back that may be the remains of leather. The front is decorated with incised lines showing a large, incomplete, central lozenge with frame; the space between the frame and lozenge is filled with closely spaced vertical lines. If the design was symetrical it could indicate about half the plate was present. The break along one side is old and the other edges are damaged and irregular. In the two complete corners are rivet holes containing rolled sheet rivets, 2.4mm in diameter and 4.7mm long. The object weighs 2.35 grams.
Rolled sheet rivets were in use c.1400 to c.1700 AD, Egan (2005 page 38-39) suggests the fashion for buckle plates and mounts was largely over by c.1550. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Burnett, Laura - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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