File:Belt or strap mount, possibly of late medieval date (FindID 703832).jpg

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Belt or strap mount, possibly of late medieval date
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All rights reserved, Wenke Domscheit, 2015-02-10 16:38:43
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Belt or strap mount, possibly of late medieval date
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English: Copper alloy openwork probable strap-end, of late medieval date.


The mount is incomplete, broken at one end and possibly also broken at the other (with a surviving length of 32.2mm and a weight of 10.7g). The wider end is straight and is the thickest surviving part of the mount (with a width of 25.1mm and a thickness of 4.2mm) and appears to be near-complete but is corroded. The end is decorated on both faces with diagonal incised marks; on the front face, the marks are cut through a rounded rib, while on the rear fewer marks are cut through the edge. The sides are convex (reaching a maximum width of 28.3mm where the mount has a thickness of 2.7mm) forming an openwork D-shaped panel. The edges are enhanced with notches and the interior contains a geometric design possibly representing a letter S in a gothic script and incorporating two circular holes at each end (of 2mm diameter), probably holes to accommodate attachment rivets. Beyond the D-shaped openwork panel, the mount narrows (to 15.4mm) before widening to a linear bar (21.3mm wide). The mount thins on both faces (to 1.0mm) beyond the bar, across which it has broken.

See a comparable example in Egan in Griffiths et al. (2007, 139; pl. 24, no. 1621).
Depicted place (County of findspot) Swansea
Date between 1375 and 1450
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1375-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 703832
Old ref: NMGW-A2EEDE
Filename: 201488jpg.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/504476
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/504476/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/703832
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Object location51° 33′ 50.4″ N, 4° 13′ 39.94″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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