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Description: | A complete copper alloy strap fitting or belt mount, of medieval date (13th to 15th Centuries). The mount is of the bar type and consists of a domed central oval, with two projecting lugs. The projecting lugs are broadly rectangular in shape with a rounded outer edge. The central oval is domed with two broad vertical grooves and four narrower vertical grooves within the wider grooves as decoration, the grooves transverse the middle of the oval extending to the outer edges. A circular copper alloy rivet is present in both of the lugs on the reverse. The reverse is concave and undecorated. The mount has a brown coloured patina across the surfaces.The mount measures 23.29 mm in length, 11.24mm wide (max), 3.77mm thick. It weighs 2.07 grams.This style of bar mount was popular during the Medieval period and typically dates from 13th to 15th Centuries AD. Several similar mounts have been recorded on the database LEIC-45CC0B), discovered in Seagrave, Leicestershire. (WMID-29DDC1) Bedfordshire, (WMID-4D8833) Podington, Bedfordshire.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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