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Description: | A corroded cast copper-alloy 'eye-piece' from a hooked mount of post-medieval date. It terminates in an open circle which would have taken the hook. The circle is bevelled internally and externally on the upper surface; the lower surface is flat. Below the eye is a small lateral protrusion on either side, below which the mount incurves before terminating in a trefoil. Generally the upper surface of the mount is moulded and bevelled; the lower surface is flat. Between the side lobes of the trefoil is a perforation which retains the corroded remains of an iron rivet; orange staining extends around the hole on both faces. The trefoil terminal has been bent upwards slightly in profile. The artefact is of a red-brown metal with a greyish patina overlaying it in places. A direct parallel can be found illustrated in Read (2008, 222; ref. 801). Read suggests that this object could have come from a 16th- or 17th-century sword-belt or baldrick.
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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