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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy mount with large openwork frame and three integral lugs remaining on the back. There is a rounded knop at the extant terminal above three lozenges, incised with internal lozenges, surrounding trefoil foliage, incised with a cross, and encompassing two square and two rhomboidal areas of openwork. Forming the base of the larger areas of openwork are two curved arms and below these are two lobed projections defined by moulded grooves on the right side and only one remaining on the left side. These projections from part of the border for a large circular area of openwork which was probably at the centre of this mount when it was complete. The circular openwork would have been bordered by another curved arm and there was likely more openwork beyond this and another lug on the back to attach it to a leather strap. This large ornate mount may have been used with a matching baldric buckle like the example below, or on a sword belt, and would have been worn by someone of status, and may date to the Civil War period. There is a large double-loop oval buckle with a similar pattern of openwork at the remaining outer edge and on either side of the pin bar recorded in CORN-18F5A5. Read (2001) illustrates a mount with openwork and trefoils on page 34, fig.19, no.275, which is dated from the 17th century.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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