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Description: | A copper alloy belt or strap mount, a bar mount, dating from the Medieval period, AD 1350 - 1400. It is a bar mount with a central, oval body at each end of which is a short, rectangular knop drilled to take a copper alloy mounting rivet. The central body is convex on the upper side and concave beneath, and is decorated with five narrow, transverse grooves each of which is itself decorated with small, transverse grooves to give a chequered or beaded pattern. The rectangular knops are of D-shaped cross-section, curved above and flat on the underside and are undecorated. The two mounting rivets remain in place. The mount has a smooth, dark brown patina. It is 22.7mm long, 21mm wide and 3.8mm wide. It weighs 2.2gm.Similar mounts are illustrated in Egan and Pritchard, 1991, Dress Accessories, 1150 - 1450, page 134, and are dated to the second half of the fourteenth century.
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