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Description: | Medieval square openwork belt mount with attachment hole within each corner, two retaining rivets. The central aperture is lozengiform, and the outer four are irregular, tending towards the pentagonal. Very clear file marks are visible around their inner edges. Lines of obliquely engraved slashing decorate the four edges. Cf. a mount from an early 13th-century London context, which a small central boss and four more simple apertures (Dress Accessories no.1046). The only fully surviving rivet suggests the strap was c.3mm thick. 22mm x 22mm. Thickness 2.5mm.
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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