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Dress Accessońes

on girdles etc (compare mount no. 1057 from strap no. 1170, with mounts no. 1058 on purse no. 1701 figs 123 & 232), and also because a number of loose mounts were recovered from the same deposits as nos. 1168-85 (nos. 801 and 829 may be further incomplete items of this present category). The details given here are to allow researchers to assess together all the mounts and straps from these deposits, whether at present they can be identified accurately or not.

The summary descriptions that follow are set out according to the arrangement on a typical example of a strap of this kind (see fig 135 and cf nos. 1182 & 1186 in figs 136 & 126). The straps are all of leather, and the folded plates (presum-ably strap-ends like nos. 589 etc) are all of tin-coated iron and have a single rivet. The straps are listed in order of increasing length of the surviving portion. These items will be fully consi-dered in another volume (Clark forthcoming).

End A Mounts    Mounts    End B

Group A    Group B

135 Schematic diagram of short strap with two groups of mounts

end A	mounts group A	group B	end B	total no. of
	(shape) (no. & configuration)			mounts
Stamped sheet-iron tin-coated mounts (all ceramic phase 11):
1168 BC72	acc. no. 2372 (context 89) strap 64+xl0mm
piąte	uncertain motifs; 14 x lOmm; rivets 2 (? +1 lost) have roves	(tom off)	(tom off)	7
(probably the other half of the following item)
1169 BC72	2517 (89) strap 110+xllmm (see no. 1103, fig 128)
(tom off)	(see preceding item) 1 +	1	two holes	2+
1170 BC72	2622 (89) strap 115+xl0mm (see no. 1057, fig 123)
piąte	rectangular; corrugated in section; 1 llx40mm; 3 rivets	(missing)	(tom off)	1 +
1171 BC72	1605 (55) strap 120+ xl5mm
piąte	circular, with central hole; 2 rivets 4 d 13mm	(missing)	(tom off)	4+
1172 BC72	2310 (79) strap 122+xllmm
rivet	circular, domed; d llmm 3 (+1 lost)	- (hint of rivet hole)	(tom off)	4+
1173 BC72	2595 (79) strap 158+xl0mm
rivet	circular, domed; d 9mm 2 (+1 lost)	(4 lost)	(? tom off)	7
1174 BC72	2593 (79) strap 161 + x25mm
piąte with 2	circular, domed; d 9mm (lost; ?3 rows of 4)	1 rivet survives	(?tom off)	21
circular mounts,		(? 3 rows of 3		+2 on piąte
d 9mm		mounts)
1175 BC72	2554 (83) strap 165xl3mm (see no. 1056, fig 123)
(piąte lost)	rectangular with transverse central 3 (+1 lost) ridge, varied in size - up to llxl0mm	(1 rivet)	hole	5