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Description: | A tinned cast copper-alloy mount of post-medieval date. The mount is flat and symmetrical, with squared terminals and a cusped centre, divided from the ends by semicircular cut outs. The upper surface is decorated with a transverse groove at the centre of each terminal. The reverse features a pair of large lugs which begin at the extremities of the terminals and curve round towards each other until one has been pressed just below the other. They are rectangular in cross-section with squared off ends. The mount's construction and decoration suggests a c. 17th-century date for it. Such a mount would have probably functioned as a strap fitting, cf. HAMP-2873E3 on this database for a comparable mount. It is related to a hooked mount illustrated in Read (2008, 217; ref. 781), in turn comparable to his early post-medieval Type 1 toggle clasps. It has been slightly twisted 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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