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Description: | An incomplete openwork, copper alloy belt or strap mount dating from the early Post-medieval period, AD1600 - 1700. There is a teardrop shaped loop with a trefoil terminal extending from the pointed end and a small trangular knop on each side of the base of the trefoil. The outer edge of the openwork loop is serrated and the inner and outer edges are bevelled. The underside of the mount is flat except for a single mounting spike depending from the centre of the trefoil; this is complete but is now bent. At the rounded end of the loop there is a rectangular extension which once carried a second mounting spike, now missing. The mount is 27.4mm long, 11mm wide and 5.5mm thick. It weighs 1.88gm.A number of identical or near-identical mounts can be found on the database. Compare for example, reference IOW-50703E, which cites as reference: Read, 2001, Metal Artefacts of Antiquity, page 28, number 300.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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