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Description: | Copper-alloy sword-belt fitting consisting of a shield-shaped plate with a suspension hook below. The plate is elaborately shaped with a top edge cut into a double incurve. The sides are also incurved and the bottom corners are rounded. The plate has a narrow reserved undecorated border around a shallow sunken centre; this centre has foliage decoration in counter-relief. The foliage appears to be a vine, and is symmetrically arranged with a leaf in the centre of a vertical stem with other stems branching out above and rejoining the central stem below where they are bound together with a short horizontal line. There are very faint traces of a silvery coating, perhaps pale gilding. There are three iron rivets for attachment to the belt, one in each of the rounded lower corners and the third in the centre of the top edge. 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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