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Dress Accessories

Two rivets for such a smali item, together with its relative robustness, may suggest that this mount was attached to a rigid object (the tin could be from solder, which is known on several strap mounts).

Tin - with single, integral rivets

1078    BWB83 5157 (157) 11 fig 125 llxl7mm; tin (AML); field of dots.

1079    TL74 2031 (414) 11 fig 108

As preceding item; 13xl8mm; tin (B Gilmour, Royal Armouries, Tower of London); on leather strap with circular mounts (no. 802); the rivet is bent over rather than hammered.

There is a similar mount in the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam (acc. no. F7228, found at Oud Krabbendijke).

1080    SWA81 2751 (2114) 12 fig 125

Tin (MLC); llxl3mm; field of dots within double-line border; rivet broken off.

FIGUR ATI VE MOUNTS

Copperalloy

Crown

1081    SWA81 acc. no. 1095 (context 2100) ceramic phase 12 fig 126

22x20mm; openwork crown with five voided circles above beading; central hole for missing separate rivet.

Shells

cast, with single, separate rivets having roves

1082    SWA81    2220    (2114)    12

12xllmm

1083    SWA81    1790    (2102)    12    fig 126

llxl2mm

Fleur de lis

cast, with two separate rwets

1084    BWB83 4711 (247) unphased fig 126 12xl8mm; brass (AML); one rivet survives.

Iron

Letters

1085    BC72 3415 (150) 11 fig 126

Four complete and fragments of some twelve further

Lombardic-letter H mounts, each c.21xl7mm, and with tin coating and three rivets having roves, on leather strap 325+xl7mm (tom off at both ends).

The dating assigned to the context (c.1350-c.1400) makes it unlikely, but not impossible, that the H is a royal initial - Henry IV’s reign having begun in 1399 (see p 3). Crowned Hs would be morę appropriate for a royal association.

Lead/tin

(with single, integral rwets unless otherwise stated) Fleur de lis

1086    SWA81 1970 (2065) 9 fig 126 Lead-tin (MLC); incomplete; 14xl6mm; openwork fleur in beaded circular border.

Shield-shaped

1087    BC72 3620 (250) 10 fig 126

Two mounts of tin (AML, MLC), each 10xllmm, on leather strap 92xl0mm (tom off at both ends); their uneven surfaces may be the result of corrosion, but this is not certain. The orientation of the shields suggests that the strap may have been worn vertically. Cf two similar mounts (with smooth surfaces) on a leather strap also having lead/tin sexfoil mounts, found at the SUN86 site (acc. no. 711), and another London strap with shield-shaped and pyramidal mounts (MoL acc. no. A26321, Fingerlin 1971, 87 fig 124).

Leaves/plants

1088    SWA81 1480A & B (2113)    12 fig 126

Two tin mounts (RAK): each 15xl3mm; tripartite leaf on stem, each leaflet having three points; the rivet survives only on one mount. Minor differences show that the two mounts are from different moulds.

1089    TL74 1960 (275) 12 fig 126

Two tin mounts (MLC), each 17x20mm, with three pinnate, serrated leaves with two curled leaflets at base; one mount is partly wom fiat; together with four domed, circular tin mounts, on short strap no. 1186. The mounts are set on the flesh side of the leather.

1090    SWA81 2885 (2106) 12 fig 127

Tin (MLC); 16xl5mm; trefoil with stem; raised central dot.

Another similar trefoil mount (21x23mm) found in London has a central hole and two rivets, and was probably a surround for a buckle-pin hole (private collection).