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Description: | A worn cast copper-alloy hooked mount of post-medieval date. The mount is sub-hemispherical, with a main convex element. At one end this is divided from a (broken) hook that curves back towards the mount by a transverse ridge. At the other end a transverse ridge divides the main body from a lobe which terminates in a knop. The reverse would have had a separate sheet plate rivetted to the mount at the base of the main sub-oval body; this rivet survives in situ, although the second rivet which would have also rivetted the mount to a strap through the upper face has been lost. The mount has a dark orange-brown colour with traces of mid-dark green corrosion product on both faces.A hooked mount of similar construction can be found illustrated in Read (2001, 42; ref. 362). Read (ibid., 30) states that such a mount would have been used to suspend a sword scabbard from a baldric, although it is sometimes classified as a dress fastener. The example illustrated in Read features a pendent fitting which hangs freely in the hook. An almost identical mount can be found recorded on this database (HAMP-C394F8).
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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