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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy strap mount of Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date (500-700). The mount is pyramidal in form with four faces and a flat square apex which measures 2.0 x 2.0mm. It has a circular basal rim (16.5mm in diameter) and is hollow on the underside. There is a central integral bar on the underside that extends across the open base. This is flat and has a maximum width of 3.5mm at the rim but narrows towards the centre where the minimum width is 2.7mm. The bar enabled a strap to be threaded. Each face has a central sub-circular cell formed by a raised zigzag line, although, three of these are now barely visible. Other raised lines appear to have formed four other surrounding cells. However, due to corrosion and damage, the arrangement of these cells is not clear. All the cells are very shallow. The cells may not have been filled with enamel as the whole of the front of the mount, including the areas within the cells, has flecks of a white metal coating. This mount is severely corroded. However, traces of a mid green patina and flecks of a white metal coating have survived at the front. The underside is partially covered in loose light green copper alloy corrosion products. The surface metal is coloured dull red. Pyramidal mounts may have adorned belts, scabbards, sword harness etc (see: MacGregor & Bollick, 1993, 'Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections', BAR 230, p.210). Evans (Treasure Annual Report 2004, 76-77, no. 104) notes that 'Pyramidal fittings were functional and were attached to the suspension straps of a sword or seax scabbard where they tightened the scabbard suspension loop. Anglo-Saxon pyramidal mounts are concentrated in southern and eastern England, and are generally made of silver or copper alloy and almost invariably the top of the mount is inlaid with a small square-cut garnet'. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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