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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy pendant suspension mount of probable seventeenth century date (AD 1600 - AD 1700). Length 38.5mm, width 21.4mm and 17mm thick. Weight 8.37g.The plate is convex at the front and concave at the rear. Viewed in plan, the sides of the plate expand outwards and then inwards forming convex profiles. Most of the upper rivet plate is broken and just a horizontal collar survives. The break is old. The lower rivet plate consists of two horizontal collars which are flat at the rear. Immediately behind the upper collar are the remains of a single rivet. Below the two collars is a rearward hook which is sub-circular in cross-section. This break is old. The hook would probably have had an attachment in the form of a ring or conjoined rings. The two rivet plates, one at the top (now missing) and one at the bottom, enabled the mount to be secured to a strap or belt. The slightly corroded metal is a brownish red colour. Patches of a dark green patina are evident at the front and rear of the piece.
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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