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Unique ID: SUSS-150E47
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete, corroded cast copper-alloy hooked mount of post-medieval date. The main part of the mount is hemispherical and convex with two slight vertical facets. At one end this is divided from a hook that curves back towards the mount by a large, double transverse ridge with groove in the middle. The end of the hook is missing from an old break. At the other end a transverse ridge divides the main body from a lobed attachment terminal; the terminal has a central rivet hole containing iron corrosion from the rivet. On the reverse a (now missing) separate sheet plate would have been rivetted to the mount at the base of the main body. It is 35.6mm long, 16.1mm wide, 6.0mm thick and weighs 5.54 grams.
A hooked mount of similar construction can be found illustrated in Read (1988, 147; ref. 995). Read (2001, 30) states that such a mount would have been used to suspend a sword scabbard from a baldric, although it is sometimes classified as a dress fastener (and can be seen functioning as such on late 16th-century portraiture).
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1550
Date to: AD 1650
Quantity: 1
Length: 35.6 mm
Width: 16.1 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight: 5.54 g
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st May 2008
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: TQ0000
Four figure Latitude: 50.790953
Four figure longitude: -0.582627
1:25K map: TQ0000
1:10K map: TQ00SW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Read, B. | 1988 | History Beneath Our Feet (1988) | Braunton | Merlin | 147 | 995 | |
Read, B. | 2001 | Metal artefacts of antiquity: A catalogue of small finds from specific areas of the United Kingdom | Langport | Portcullis Publishing | 30 |