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Description: | A copper alloy strap fitting with pendant loop, dating from the Medieval period, AD1350 - 1400. It consists of a narrow, rectangular bar mount with a trilobed, freely swinging pendant loop. The upper lobe of the pendant portion is square-topped and has a narrowed strap bar, around which the bar portion of the mount is folded. The bar portion is of thin gauge metal, square at the end of the outward facing side and pointed on the inner side. A separate, thicker bar of metal is riveted to the from part of the mount with a single rivet. This rivet passes through both ends of the folded portion, fastening it together. The upper side of the pendant loop is bevelled and the underside is flat. File marks can be seen on the underside; the remainder of the mount is plain. The mount has a smooth, dark green patina. It is 20.8mm long, 12.1mm wide and 4.9mm thick. It weighs 1.75gm.A similar, quadrilobed example of this mount is illustrated in Egan and Pritchard, 1991, Dress Accesories 1150 - 1450, page 221, number 1189 and is attributed to the second half of the fourteenth century. Trilobed examples can also be found on the database; see for example reference SF-1CBB08.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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