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Description: | Sword-belt fitting, consisting of a sub-triangular plate with hook holding a ring, both of copper alloy. The plate is 32 mm long in total, has two rounded lobes at the 12 mm wide top, and is curved in cross-section. It has a central iron rivet, and it is just possible that the shape of the top is due to it breaking across a second rivet hole. The plate thickens and narrows to form the blunt-ended hook, which is bent up and backwards to hold the ring securely. The ring is 12.5 mm in diameter and oval in cross-section. Total maximum length 41 mm. Both plate and hook are rather crudely made, and would have been used to link the scabbard to the sword-belt. 16th or 17th century. | Subjects: | sword belt fitting | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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