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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, rounded 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 six narrow, transverse grooves. The 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 is 18.8mm long, 9.6mm wide and 7.6mm thick. 1.59g.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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