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Description: | An incomplete corroded cast copper-alloy hooked mount of post-medieval date. The mount is sub-hemispherical, with a main convex element. The upper surface of this latter is faceted, with a slightly wider central face flanked by two narrower faces on each side. At one end the boss is divided from a hook that curves back towards the mount by a large, grooved double transverse ridge. At the other end a transverse ridge divides the main body from a lobe which terminates in a neat pointed knop. On the reverse a (now missing) separate sheet plate would have been rivetted to the mount at the base of the main body; the rivet survives, as does a second rivet which would have rivetted the mount to a strap through the upper lobe. The mount has a red-brown colour with small traces of mid-light green corrosion product all over. A hooked mount of similar construction can be found illustrated in Read (1988, 147; ref. 995). Read (2001, 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 (and can be seen functioning as such on late 16th-century portraiture). The example illustrated in Read features a pendent fitting which hangs freely in the hook.
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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