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Description: | Cast and gilt copper alloy hooked mount with two separate rivets, possibly for suspending a sword from a baldrick. The square plate is decorated with a moulded eagle and has the remains of half of a loop at the foot of the eagle, just below one of the rivet holes. The orientation of the eagle suggests that the hook was meant to be at the top, attached to the loop of a baldrick mount, and the square plate was attached to the sword belt or scabbard, so that the eagle would be seen the right way up. Read (2001) illustrates a range of examples on page 42, Nos.355-359, which he dates to the 17th century.
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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