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Description: | A corroded cast copper-alloy hooked mount of post-medieval date. The mount is sub-trapezoidal in plan with an incurved (U-shaped) upper edge; one of the top corners has been truncated slightly. The artefact tapers towards the inward-turning hook, now slightly misaligned. Above the hook are small lateral protrusions. The mount is shallowly convex. It features two rivet holes, one towards the upper edge, the other just below the centre of the plate.The copper alloy is covered in light-green and off-white corrosion product over a dark-green metal. Comparable hooked mounts can be found illustrated in Margeson (1993, 39; refs.: 257, 258) where they are dated to the period either side of 1600 AD. Such mounts were probably associated with sword belts.
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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