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Description: | Very large example of a standard type of medieval belt-mount known as a bar-mount. It consists of a central circular or slightly oval lobe, slightly thicker than the rest of the mount and with a decorative central perforation. There are then two very slightly tapering arms, facetted on the upper surface so pentagonal in cross-section. These both end in smaller rounded terminals which are pierced to take a separate copper-alloy rivet, both of which survive. The mount is 55 mm long, and the central lobe is 11 mm across and 4 mm thick. Similar mounts excavated in London (Egan and Pritchard 1991, nos. 1154, 1157, 1158) are 22-32 mm long and come from contexts of c. 1150-c. 1350. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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