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Description: | Gilt copper alloy belt mount or stiffener in the form of an elongated octagon with two integral bent hooks or lugs, one broken and the other about 17 mm long, on the back of the plate. The mount is decorated with an anthropomorphic figure with head and curved arms, three recessed rings on the chest and four recessed rings on what looks like a fish tail, suggesting it might be depicting a mermaid. The mount would have been cast and then the decorated surface was gilded. The gilding remains now on a few of the gold dots outlining the figure and following the edge of the mount, framing the figure. The mount is probably 16th century in date, looking at the shape of it, and the paired prongs. Very few of these have been found in closely dated contexts so that the complete span they were in fashion is unknown, and they may yet prove to go into the 17th century. They have been discovered in Jamestown, US, which was founded in 1607, but there they could be scrap metal by this time (Geoff Egan pers. comm.).
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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