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Description: | A corroded cast copper-alloy mount (strap-fitting) of post-medieval date. The mount is flat and symmetrical. It has a trefoil terminal, below which a broadly trapezoidal body with flared and rounded lower terminal. The upper surface of the mount is decorated in low relief created through vertically symmetrical curving foliate patterns in the form of fronds emerging from the centre line. There is a leaf pattern within the central lobe of the trefoil terminal. The reverse features a pair of long lugs which begin at the extremities of the terminals and curve round towards each other such that they abut; both have been bent slightly to one side. The mount's construction and decoration suggests a c. 17th-century date. It has a mid-green patina where it survives over a red-brown metal. Such a mount would have probably functioned as a strap fitting. This mount bears similarities in form and decoration with 17th-century sword-belt hooks (cf. Read 2001, 43; ref. 373) and mounts of different construction (cf. ibid., 41; ref. 350). As Read (2001, 30) suggests, all such objects might be part of a group of associated fittings.
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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