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Description: | A copper-alloy belt mount dating to the third century AD. The mount comprises a flat, approximately oval plate decorated with scrolling openwork motifs. The wider end of the plate is broken. However, the apex of the mount terminates in a small, rectangular extension which is decorated with a deep vertical groove. The underside of the plate is flat and plain. It has not been filed down or 'finished' and has a rough appearance. Two semi-circular section lugs extend from the underside of the plate, one positioned at the wide end of the plate, the other at the apex. The heads of both appear to have been flattened by hammering. The mount measures 48mm in length, 36mm in width and has a thickness of 1mm. The lugs measure 3mm in length and 2mm in diameter. It weighs 3g.A parallel for this type of mount is known from South Shields. Although simpler in the execution of its decoration, it is similar in shape and design (Allason-Jones and Miket 1984, 225-226, no. 3.780). It is also similar in design to harness pendants of the period. See for example, a pendant from Zugmantel (Bishop and Coulston 2009, 191, Fig. 124, no. 13)
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