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Dress Accessories

142 Eyelets(lrl)

In same finds bag was acc. no. 801E - part of a leather strap 13mm wide and cut transversely at one end.

1223    SWA81 807 (2103) 12 fig 142

Tin (AML, lead-tin MLC); llxl5mm; consists at one edge of a pair of opposed, bevelled volutes sprouting from a single stem, and the other edge is fiat and engrailed; edge of hole is wom on one side; on leather strap 23xl5mm (folded over at both sides to meet along centre of back, and tom off at both ends).

1224 SWA81 991 (2103) 12

Lead-tin (MLC); as preceding item; leather survives from strap.

The above two items from the same deposit were presumably from the same strap.

1225 SWA81 992 (2103) 12

Lead-tin (MLC); d llmm; grooves define six bicuspid lobes; leather survives.

1226    SWA81 3290 (2112) 12 fig 142

As preceding item; lead/tin (MLC); (no surviving leather).

1227    SWA81    3645    (2101)    12    fig 142

Lead-tin (MLC); d 17mm; sexfoil; lobes altemately domed and dished, the former with fields of cross hatching.

Cf sexfoil mount no. 1029 from the same deposit for a similar design, and see fig 157B.

1228    SWA81    2117    (2103)    12

Lead-tin (MLC); incomplete; one disc, d 8.5mm, is in its original State, the other side (possibly also a disc) is folded. It is uncertain which side was the front.

Cf nos. 1218 etc for the probable original form.

The wear at the edges of the holes in several of the above items is presumably from buckie pins, or possibly laces. The holes in nos. 1225-26 seem too smali for use with buckie pins. Although the majority of these eyelets are from early 15th-century deposits, no. 1218 appears to be from earlier than the middle of the 14th century.

See rectangular mounts no. 1060 (fig 124) fora possible different solution to the prevention of wear around buckle-pin holes, using sheet mounts.