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Description: | A worn cast copper-alloy mounted fastener from a later medieval/post-medieval sword belt. The main body of the mount is a concave oval shape, at one end of which is a transverse ridge dividing it from a small concave circular element with terminal knop. There is a central circular perforation in the circular element, and another rivet hole at the opposite end of the main oval body. Both holes have traces of orange corrosion product on both faces suggesting that the rivets were made of iron. At the other end of the main body is a pair of transverse ridges which divide it from a protrusion which, when looking at the lower surface, tapers to a rounded point. On the upper surface, however, is a sub-circular element, either cast integrally or affixed. An identical mount from Dorset is illustrated by Read (2006, 6; ref. 17), who describes it as a 'male member of a...toggle fastener'. Further examples have been recorded on this database, e.g. SF-3BE413. | 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: | 1450
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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