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Description: | A cast copper alloy Post-Medieval hooked mount from a sword-belt hanger. It is complete, with a forward-facing hook at its upper terminal, which finishes in a globular knop. The mount plate is shaped with its long sides being mirror-images, and the lower terminal cut in a fish-tail with small central triangular projection. There is a rivet in situ at the centre near this terminal, and another perforation for rivet (missing) just below the hook. The outer surface is decorated in moulded floriate relief, with incised lines which flow to the curved edges of the mount from two central longitudinal ribs. The mount measures 50.51mm in length, 20.99mm in width across the lower edge and 9.21mm in width at its narrowest. It weighs 6.12g.Three very similar hooked mounts are illustrated in Read 2008, nos 793 and 795, and are dated to the sixteenth century. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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