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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy post medieval mount, possibly part of a sword-belt fitting (hanger) dating to the period c. AD 1500 - 1700. The mount consists of a symmetrical moulded plate with two side knops which then taper into a narrowed waist before flaring about into a second pair of knops and then terminates in a rounded terminal. The obverse is decorated with a symmetrical foliate design in relief surrounded by a narrow undecoreated raised border which follows the shape of the plate. There is a circular rivet hole which retains an iron rivet at the top of the mount. The reverse of the mount is undecorated.Mounts of this type are stylistically similar to sword belt fittings of the same period and may be companion pieces (Cf. Read, B, 2001 p. 29 &41, no. 349). Such fittings are rarely found complete, rather elements or broken examples are far more common. However, a complete sword-belt hanger of this type can be seen on this database (ref. WILT-5F9183) and also in illustrated in Geake (2001, fig. 17), with examples of the accompanying M-shaped plates illustrated in Read (2008, 219-220; refs. 790-792). Such fittings 'proliferate in the 16th and 17th centuries' (Geake 2001, 35). Their design and decoration are relatively standardised.Cf. WILT-823448.The mount measures 27.55mm in length, 15.24mm maximum width, 5.08mm minimum width, is 4.40 mm thick and weighs 2.54g.
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