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MOUNT
Unique ID: SF-68B8E4
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A sheet copper alloy Post-Medieval hooked mount. It has a trefoil terminal with openwork decoration, tapering to a narrow rectangular bar decorated with tiny knops before it extends into a hook. This bends backwards to form an almost-enclosed loop, from which a ring is suspended. The remains of a rivet fill the perforation at the top of the trefoil, and another can be determined in the centre of the narrow bar, above the hooked terminal. The suspended ring is faceted and flattened, and there are traces of a white metal coating on both sides of the mount.
It measures 36.23mm in length and is 15.24mm in width. The hook is 3.25mm in width and the ring is 12.73mm in diameter and 2.54mm in width. The mount weighs 3.11g.
It is most likely a sword-belt fitting, and a similar hooked mount is noted in Margeson 1993, fig.22 no.259.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1590
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 36.23 mm
Width: 15.24 mm
Weight: 3.11 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st September 2011
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Suffolk Coastal (District)
To be known as: Sutton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margeson, S. | 1993 | Norwich Households: Medieval and Post-Medieval Finds from Norwich Survey Excavations 1971-78 | Norwich | East Anglian Archaeology | fig.22, no.259 |
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