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Description: | A slightly corroded and bent cast copper-alloy mount of post-medieval date, surviving complete. The mount is flat and symmetrical, with rounded terminals and an incurving centre. The upper surface is decorated in low relief with foliate patterns in the form of fronds emerging symmetrically from a bound base at the mount's centre. The reverse features a pair of large rounded lugs which begin at the extremities of the terminals and curve round towards each other until one goes under the other. The mount's construction and decoration suggests a c. 17th-century date for it. It now has a variable mid-green patina. Such a mount would have probably functioned as a strap fitting; it may be an en suite item with a sword belt which features other mounts with similar decorative treatments. This mount bears similarities in form and decoration with a strap fitting which can be viewed on this database - ref. HAMP-BB1571. The main plate has been twisted slightly in profile.
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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