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Description: | A Medieval-post Medieval copper alloy mount, probably a harness fitting (12th-17th century). The mount has a lozengiform openwork panel (width: 27.62mm) that narrows to form a flat loop (width: 7.88mm) which curves around the back of the mount and extends to the top of the lozengiform section. This loop is riveted twice to the lozengiform panel and the rivets are visible from the front. The openwork decoration comprises two triangular perforations and then a pair of two interlinked roughly circular perforations. The pattern is symmetrical down the vertical midline. The rivets probably attached the mount to a leather strap. There is some wear to the base of the loop which suggests either a ring or a pendant was suspended from the loop. It is broadly similar in form to a harness pendant loop excavated in Winchester, No. 3923 (Biddle 1990:1051). Patchy pale green patina with areas of brown/grey base metal showing through Dimensions: Length 41.16mm; Width 27.62mm; Thickness 10.33mm; Weight 12.58g Reference: Biddle M. 1990. Object and Economy in Medieval Winchester. Clarendon Press, Oxford
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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