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Description: | Copper-alloy sword-belt fitting. It consists of a plate with a hook, which would have been attached to the scabbard strap, and a plate with a hinge and a loop, which would have been attached to the belt. The hooked plate, or hanger, has a trefoil top and shouldered sides and has engraved decoration of leaves springing from a central stalk. At one end is a single iron rivet, and at the other is a hook with a globular knop at the tip. The hook is engaged in the loop of the belt plate, which also has foliate decoration and a single iron rivet. It appears to have lost a second loop and to have had a hinge with two projections, now broken, between the two loops. 16th or 17th century. | Subjects: | sword belt fitting | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Burr, Geoff - West Kent Metal Detector Club | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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