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Description: | Copper-alloy mount of the type called by Egan and Pritchard (1991) 'shield-shaped sheet plate with bar-mounts etc at attachment edge'. This one has, as usual, a plate with two lobes separated by a narrow waist, but the two lobes are both rectangular (one a little longer and with rounded corners) and the waist is rather long. As usual, one lobe (the one with rounded corners) has a separate copper-alloy rivet with a small separate circular rove; as usual, the other lobe has a similar rivet which secures a separate mount. The oddity comes in the shape of the separate mount; instead of being a long bar, it is shaped like a flower, with four petals and a short stalk. It could still have served the same function, however, as it still forms a raised area and could have engaged with a strap clasp. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1200
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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