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Description: | A small, slightly worn and corroded cast copper-alloy mount of post-medieval date. The mount is sub-triangular in form (it looks somewhat like a fly), with a circular knop (Th.: 3.25mm) at the end at which the triangle tapers. At the other end is another protrusion with rounded end; this latter features a circular perforation for an iron rivet - the orange, corroded traces of the rivet survive in the hole. The mount is decorated unifacially with circular and scrolled foliate motifs. It is perhaps of the same ilk as a pair of mounts illustrated in Read (2001, 30, 41; refs. 349, 350), which in their turn have been compared with post-medieval sword belt fittings on account of their foliate decoration. It is assumed that these small fittings were ensuite with larger sword-belt fittings, in this case with a fitting illustrated in Read (2008, 209; ref. 758) - his early post-medieval toggle-clasp Type 4. This artefact has corroded to a variable green colour.
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