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Dress Accessońes

Sąuare — with single integral rivet

Copper alloy

1063    BIG82 153 (2888) 8 fig 125 & colour pl IB

Cast; copper (AML); 16xl6mm; field of dots inside raised border; central saltire cross with arms terminat-ing in fleurs de lis; tracę of gilding (MLC).

A relatively robust mount.

Rectangular/sąuare

— pyramidal, with single, separate rivets

Lead/tin

1064    BIG82 5958 (6220) 6 fig 125

Three lead-tin mounts (MLC), each c.7x6mm, with radiating angled grooves, and copper-alloy rivets with lead/tin roves; on two lengths of leather strap up to 42x8mm (both with further crude holes, and cut at one end, tom off at the other - one length has a hole probably for another missing mount) - these are attached to opposite ends of a thinner strap 302xl5mm (cut at both ends) that passes through a D-section oval lead/tin loop 6x30mm, which has a tracę of banding and a concavity at one end; the mounts are also each riveted through further pieces of thicker leather which are cut at one end and tom off at a point where they widen at the other.

The function of this complicated object is unknown. No obvious parallel for the loop, which may be a distorted slide of some kind, has been traced.

These are the earliest lead/tin strap mounts by over a century among the assemblages discussed here (spangles nos. 1269 etc have no obvious connection with straps); there is only one other instance of mounts with lead/tin roves, and only one other lead/tin mount with a separate rivet. The decoration is paralleled on later mounts nos. 1072-73 and 1075. Cf leather girdle no. 17 (fig 24) for stamps of somewhat similar design.

Rectangular/sąuare

- pyramidal, with single, integral rivets

Lead/tin

1065    SWA81 596 (2055) 9

Lead-tin (MLC); incomplete; 15x11.5+mm; beaded border; rivet 9mm long.

1066 SWA81 458 (2018) 9 fig 125 Tin (MLC); possibly flattened, 15xl5mm; low-relief pyramidal head; beaded border with larger bead at each comer; rivet lOmm long.

1067-71 BWB83 16 (108) 10 fig 125 Tin (MLC); 10xl0mm; pyramidal head with raised central boss and beaded border; set lozenge-fashion on fragment of leather strap 17mm wide.

BWB83 acc. nos. 21 (illustrated), 22, 23 & 24 from the same deposit are all similar and all tin (AML, MLC). All five items are presumably from the same strap.

Five further identical mounts are set orientated parallel to a leather strap 12mm wide (private collection, fig 125); these show how a different effect could be obtained using the same basie items.

1072    BWB83    19 (108) 10 fig 125

Tin (MLC); 19x21mm; central boss, radiating angled grooves around; on fragment of leather strap 16mm wide.

1073    BWB83    25 (108) 10

As preceding item; tin (MLC); leather survives.

The two preceding items, from the same deposit, are probably from the same strap.

1074    SWA81 2779 (2032) 11 fig 125 High-tin lead alloy (MLC); incomplete; crude; 9x9mm; pyramidal centre; a surrounding groove is subdivided into squares by transverse lines.

1075    BWB83    5417 (286) 11    fig    125

Tin (AML, MLC); 13xl2mm; radiating angled grooves; leather survives.

1076    BWB83    2660 (330) 11    fig    125

Tin (MLC); 15.5xl6mm; similar to nos. 1067-71, with additional raised central sąuare having cross-and-four-pellets motif.

LOZENGE (DIAMOND) SHAPED

Copper alloy - with two separate rivets

1077 SWA81 acc. no. 2136 (context 2081) ceramic phase 9 fig 125

Cast; 13xllmm, fleur de lis in beaded border; rivets have tin on the shanks (MLC).

125 Sąuare, and (bottom row) lozenge-shaped mount (1:1)