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Description: | A corroded cast copper-alloy hooked mount of post-medieval date. The mount has a central circular convex boss with a hollow back. At one end of the boss is a hook that curves back towards the mount, seperated from the boss by a raised transverse rib. At the other end a second transverse rib divides the central boss from an oval cenvex and flat backed lobe which terminates in a pointed knop. There is the corroded remains of an iron rivet through this upper lobe and the stub of a copper alloy rivet on the back behind the rib between the central boss and hook. The mount has a red-brown colour with small traces of mid-light green corrosion product all over. It is 32.7mm long, 11.7mm wide and 4.5mm thick, it weighs 2.9 grams.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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