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Description: | A very worn cast copper-alloy belt fitting or mount of possible Medieval or later date. It has a flat rectangular plate that has two triangular notches to each side and the attachment end, with a double pierced lug pendant from the base end. Single circular rivet holes are present at the centre of the attachment and lug ends of the plate and the centre of the front face has moulded decoration in the form of a quatrefoil motif with central pellet (flower?). The pendant lug has a separately cast cylindrical copper-alloy bar. All surfaces are extremely worn with traces of patinated but corroded green surface visible in places as well as traces of possible gilding. It measures 20.25mm in length, 9.93mm in width, 1.99mm in thickness and 1.22g in weight.This is a small, decorative mount or strap fitting with pendant bar, perhaps used to suspend a small pendant or similar decorative item. It is perhaps too small to have functioned as a harness or similar pendant mount but may be of similar date range. This might indicate a date in the Medieval period, perhaps between the 13th and 15th centuries AD if not slightly later.
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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