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Description: | A copper-alloy furniture fitting of late post-medieval to early modern date. The fitting is part of a furniture handle which is damaged at its connecting end, where it would have been joined to a flat decorative boss via a split suspension loop. The fitting is flat and parallel sided, though it expands at one end to form two terminals, separated by a triangular gap. These are bent almost to 90 degrees of the object and knopped. The front of the fitting is decorated with a half-lozenge, itself decorated with chevrons. The fitting measures 25.8 mm in length and is 13.9 mm wide, expanding to 26.3 mm wide at the split terminals. It is 2.1 mm thick and 6.1 in weight. This is likely to date to the late 17th to early 18th centuries. A very similar example is illustrated in Bailey (1993, page 16; Figure 1).
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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