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Description: | Post Medieval (17th to 18th centuries) strap fitting (mount): A copper alloy strap fitting, decorative mount which, in plan, is a drop shape, a large oval knop at the base and a smaller sub-lozenge knop at the tip otherwise it is undecorated and slightly dome. The reverse is undecorated and has two integral studs, one which is incomplete, but both are oval in section and tapers to a blunt point. The stud is bent over. The other stud has only a trace. They are positioned one on each droplet/knop joins. The surface of the mount has an matte red-brown coloured surface. It measures 35.98mm long, 17.58mm wide and 7.24mm thick, weighing 3.46g.Strap fittings have been in use from the late Medieval to Post Medieval period. Egan (2005) comments that when they were used as dress accessories and continued on horse harness straps into the 18th century. The mount probably dates to the 17th or 18th centuries.Egan, G. 2005 Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition MoLAS Monograph 19 p. 39
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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