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Mounts

Presumably a mount, though the lentoid section is easier to parallel among la ter buttons.

1094    BWB83 288 (367) 9 fig 127 & colour pl 4F

d 27.5mm; sbc-pointed star; pewter (AML); raised linear hexagram, with altemate trefoils and bosses in the points; sbc-arched motif in the middle surrounds a central collet holding an incomplete blue-glass stone; shank broken or cut off; reuse is indicated by two pierced holes by which the mount could have been sewn in place.

On the supposed magical apotropaic properties of the Solomon’s seal motif, see Spencer’s discussion of a late-medieval hexagram brooch found in Christchurch (1983, 81-83).

Letters

1095    SWA81 1667 (2112) 12 fig 127 Broken off at one end; 8xl2mm; tin (AML); Lombardic-letter S with field of raised dots.

Cf the plainer S-mount with strap-end no. 708 (fig 98). Two leather straps in the British Museum collec-tion (acc. nos. 83.4—26, 14 and 15, both found in London) retain series of plainer S mounts of lead/tin.

These cheap mounts echo the motif of the upper-class collars of SS in precious metals (Spencer 1985, 449-51).

1096    SWA81 3811 (unstratified) fig 127 16x21mm; tin (AML; lead-tin, MLC); variation of a Lombardic-letter R, with triangular projection at the right; two rivets.

1097 SWA81 814 (2097) 12 fig 127 29xl4mm; tin (AML); hollow-backed black-letter d or p; multiply engraved decoration; holes for two missing separate rivets.

NON FIGURATIVE MOUNTS

Copper alloy - with separate rwets

1098 BIG82 acc. no. 2445 (context 2636) ceramic phase 7 fig 128

10xl9mm; bronze (AML); grid with trilobate sides, two voided slots and incuse beading; two missing rivets; very thin sheeting.

1099    BIG82 3569 (3232) 7 fig 128

Cast; slightly corroded; three-armed mount; 32x33mm; central boss with radiating lines and en-graved zigzags around the centre and each of the three rivets.

Possibly from a book cover - see on no. 1062.

A similar mount was excavated at St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury (Henig and Woods, in Sherlock and Woods 1988, 212 & 215 no. 46 fig 68, described as ‘almost certainly a belt fitting’).

1100    SWA81 623 (2051) 9 fig 128 Incomplete; llxl6mm; rounded central element with raised band to each side; one hole of original two for missing rivets survives; a tripartite end survives on one side.

Presumably originally symmetrical. Cf MoL acc. no. 81.176/50 for a complete mount of this form, 22.5mm long (from a very similar die) with the design less crisply registered.

1101    BWB83 4588 (286) 11 fig 128

d 21mm; trilobed outline, with cusps in the extemal angles; brass (AML); three rabbeted roundels, each with a reserved sbc-pointed star; single missing rivet.

Iron

1102    BC72 3593 (150) 11 fig 128 Wrought; two conjoined circles; llx9mm; single, separate rivet; tin-coated; on leather strap (68 x lOmm, tom off at both ends, and with crude holes along centre).

For the (?)clasp on an accompanying piece of leather, see no. 572.

1103    BC72 2517 (89) 11 fig 128

Two mounts of uncertain design: conjoined letters (?SI) or crowned device (?M or conjoined rings); each 14xllmm; tin coating; on short strap no. 1169.

Pewter -(?) with separate rivet(s)

1104    SWA81 549 (2016) 12 fig 128 Pewter (AML; lead-tin, MLC); possibly an incomplete mount; 19xestd originally c.35mm; lozenge with central vertical slot, beading along perimeter; three crude fleurs de lis in both main fields; loop survives at one side; scratching on front.

Perhaps intended as a letter O. If this was a mount rather than a pendant, it is one of very few of lead/tin to have had separate rivets.

Non-figurative lead/tin mounts continued - with single integral rivets

1105    SWA81 3223 (2274) 9 fig 128 Tin (RAK); lentoid; 8.5xllmm; beaded border.