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Description: | Incomplete cast pewter openwork mount with moulded raised rectangles in a single row within raised linear borders on the central element. The sides are bowed and just have two raised ribs, and one is broken in half along with the piece of the base that it would have attached to. The remaining piece of the base, which is at right angles to the central element, has recessed rectangles in a linear row, within its borders.
It is so regular in some of the rectangles that it must be post-medieval in date (Geoff Egan, pers comm). With identical decoration on both faces it must have been mounted so that both sides could be seen, rather than used as a badge or buckle.
Egan (2005) illustrates a pewter rectangular openwork panel on page 218, Fig.203, No.1198, which is dated to the 17th century.
Whitehead (1996) illustrates similar shoe buckles with rectangular openwork decoration on page 107, which are dated to the 18th century. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Tyacke, Anna - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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