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Description: | A small cast copper-alloy mount of post-medieval date. It is sub-triangular in form and decoratively moulded unifacially. The lower surface is flat with a central circular perforation. Just beyond the widest end there is a transverse groove on the upper surface. Central, above this is a perforation with the remains of a corroded iron rivet within. The mount constricts to a waist before widening to a central sub-circular element with notched sides: this bears the central perforation described above. Beyond, the mount tapers slightly before widening to a ridge. The object terminates in a globular knop. This mount could have come from a sword belt of 16th- or 17th-century date. Its completeness is uncertain; it could be part of a mount similar to that illustrated in Read (2001, 43; ref. 371). Comparable mounts have also been recorded on this database - BH-2E81E7, ESS-0C04A7, ESS-D2C321 - and, since this record was made, in the literature - Read (2008, 209; ref. 757) - his early post-medieval, Type 3.
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