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Description: | Post Medieval cast copper-alloy hooked mount, now missing the hook. The mount is sub-trapezoidal in plan with an incurved (U-shaped) upper edge; one of the top corners has been truncated slightly. The sides taper towards the base where they angle in to the top of the hook. A short lengh of the hook remains but the majority, including the bent section, is lost to old breaks. The front is slightly convex and the centre of the back is concave. It has two rivet holes filled with the remains of iron rivets. Both are on the centre line, one towards the upper edge, the other just below the centre of the plate. It is now 29.0mm long, 10.7mm wide and 3.3mm thick including the remains of the rivets 2.2mm excluding; it weighs 1.83 grams.Comparable hooked mounts can be found illustrated in Margeson (1993, 39; refs.: 257, 258) where they are dated to c.1550-1650 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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