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Description: | A corroded gilded copper-alloy strap mount, probably dating from the medieval period. The mount is sub-rectangular in plan, with rounded corners. Mass: 11.0g. Length: 42.8mm. Width: 28.5mm. Thickness: 2.5mm. These are maximum dimensions. Within each corner there is a rivet hole (diameter: 3.4mm-4.4mm). One of the shorter ends of the mount has a narrow pointed oval profile, although generally the mount has a flatter cross section. The mount is thickest at the centre of the end with the ponted oval profile.The front of the mount is decorated with a design consisting of curved recesses and raised lines. Due to the corroded surface condition, the design is unclear, but a series of raised lines remain that are, in the main, broadly parallel to the longer sides of the mount. There remains gilding on some of the raised surfaces of the mount.The mount is broadly similar to items HAMP-7E13B4 and LIN-EA5E46 recorded on the PAS database. In "Dress Accessories, 1150-1450", Egan records rectangular strap mounts (p.195-9 and figure 123) and strap plates (p.226-7 and figure 141). The latter, a late 14th/early 15th century item, usually consist of two rectangular or sub-rectangular sheets riveted together (ibid. p.226). Egan comments that these may have been used to connect two lengths of strap, although among finds from Ospringe and Battle Abbey are mounts of this type in which the leather, although decayed, appears to be continuous through the plate (ibid. p.226-7). The mount recorded here is medieval in date, and may be from a late 14th/early 15th century strap plate.
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