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Dress Accessońes

246

1078

805

1095

(A)    mounts with fields of dots (1:1)

(B)    fittings with motifs of altemate dished and cross-hatched lobes (cf nos. 481,1029 & 1227 - not to scalę)

strap together with mounts of completely diffe-rent forms (lozenge mount no. 1079 - see belo w - appears together with plain circular mounts no. 802, see fig 108). It is possible that common design traits are indicative of production from a particular workshop (eg the composite buckie and strap-end on the archer’s wrist bracer in fig 143, both with forked spacers; cf also Hume 1863, pl X buckie no. 6 together with strap-loops of similar design nos. 11 & 14). Diversity of decoration in various fittings may have been sought by the wearer quite as much as the repetition of motifs. The following suggested groupings therefore re-quire further evidence before any of them can be confirmed as actual usage: lead/tin mounts with fields of dots forming the decoration - circular mounts nos. 805, 814 & 815, lozenge mounts nos. 1078 & 1079, letter-S mount no. 1095, and no. 1109 (three mounts, each of which consists of three joined dots); see fig 157A (cf Mitchiner 1986, 133 nos. 366a-c).

lead/tin strap fittings with altemate cross-hatched bosses and dished roundels - eyelet no. 1227, buckie no. 481, a strap-end with a corded border and a foliate terminal (also found in London, private collection), and probably also mount no. 1029; see fig 157B.

lead/tin strap fittings with motifs based on opposed tear shapes - buckie no. 473, eyelet no. 1219, and strap-end no. 712 (figs 65, 142 & 98).

The acom terminals on several strap-ends (eg nos. 672-84, fig 94) may perhaps be compared with acom-headed pins (nos. 1485-87, fig 199); brooch no. 1327 and finger ring no. 1631, both of lead-tin, have similar quatrefoil motifs (though the former object has been attributed to ceramic phase 9 and the latter to phase 11; figs 163 & 218). A similar motif also appears on a brooch from Oud Krabbendijke (Netherlands) in the van Beuningen collection. Simple designs probably had a very wide currency.

Probable clasp no. 572 of double-ring form on a leather strap is accompanied by another length of strap with mount no. 1102 of similar basie form; both fittings are of iron (figs 79 & 128) - these two items, though not conclusive proof, are the closest the excavated accessories come to pro-viding elear evidence for the use of suites of fittings with common motifs in London at this period.