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Description: | A cast copper alloy strap fitting, a decorative mount. The mount is incomplete and in poor condition. In plan, the mount has a sub-lis shaped terminal which protrudes from an incomplete lozenge shaped body. The mount is flat on the outer surface and reverse. The reverse has a single integral oval sectioned stud which is fragmentary. This stud is positioned under the lis terminal, the second rivet, would have been positioned under the other terminal, but this is since missing. The surface of the mount has an abraded red copper corroded surface. It measures 23.82mm long, 13.29mm wide and 4.73mm thick, weighing 1.7g.
The strap fitting, a mount, probably dates to the late Medieval to early Post Medieval period, c. 1500 to 1700. The nature of the corrosion may suggest a Post Medieval date is more likely. Egan (Egan G. 2005 Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition Museum of London and English Heritage) illustrates similar mounts, for example No. 136 and discusses that these may have also decorated harnesses as well as personal belts. | 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: | 1500
1700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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