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Description: | Incomplete copper-alloy 'propeller-shaped' mount. It is flat and has a central circular lobe 12 mm across. Originally there were two triangular lobes, attached at their apexes, but one is now missing (unworn break). The surviving one has a lozengiform knop at one of the far corners and a break at the other; the surviving width is 19 mm. A flat-topped rib 2.5 mm wide runs down the length of the mount, and is decorated with faint transverse grooves. On the reverse, what looks like a casting seam (a flaw?) runs down the centre. The mount is slightly bent, which may have caused the break. The triangular terminal has two rivet holes, each with a surviving separate copper-alloy rivet with a shaft bent at a slight angle. The total thickness of the mount and rivets is 5 mm. The surviving length is 25.5 mm, but the original length would have been c. 37 mm. These mounts are late Roman belt-stiffeners, but they seem to have been attractive to the early Anglo-Saxons and are occasionally found in their graves.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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