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Description: | Mount from a sword-belt, consisting of a large plate and a hook which has now broken off. The plate is roughly rectangular, with the edge opposite the hook cut into a double incurve and the side edges cut into a single incurve. The corners on the edge with the hook are elegantly rounded. The plate is now slightly bent and may always have been a little curved. There is a raised border around relief ?foliage decoration, which is now rather corroded. There is one rivet hole in the middle of the double-incurved edge, and one in each of the rounded corners. The projection which would originally have run down to the hook tapers to an old break. These decorated hooked mounts were probably riveted to the sword scabbard, and hooked into a ring worn on the belt.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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