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Description: | Copper alloyStrap End Mount. This is a medieval strapend mount to link with a folding strapclasp, a correction of the original identification of this object by MF as a purse mount. This correction was kindly offered by David Williams with reference to Egan and Pritchard's dress accessories volume.Composite mount comprising a concavo-convex bar mount, attached to an irregular figure-of-eight piece of cut sheet, and two rivets of length 3mm which are secured by sub-rectangular cut sheet metal roves of 5.3mm square and 5mm by 4mm. Suggested date: Medieval, 1250-1450.Length: 17.71mm, Width: 12.02mm, Thickness of sheet: 0.68mm, Thickness of assembled objectat bar mount: 3.85mm, Thickness of bar mount: 1.5mm, Weight (with a little soil adhering): 1.51gms.
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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