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Description: | Part of a broken cast copper alloy sword belt fitting dating from the sixteenth or seventeenth century. Less than half of the fitting survives, consisting of part of the plate with one suspension loop (which would have been fitted to a belt) and part of one hook, which is attached to the suspension loop. The hook would have been fitted onto the scabbard straps for a sword. It appears that on this example, the plate would have originally three suspension loops. The surviving part of the plate is curvilinear, 27.46mm long by 23.37 wide by 2.25mm thick, with cast scrolled foliage decoration on the front. The surviving part of the hook is 22.07mm long, 13.56mm wide and 3.22mm thick at its widest point. The looped part of the forward curving hook has a sub-spherical end knop, 4.46mm in diameter, but much of the rest of the hook is missing.
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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