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Description: | Cast copper alloy hooked mount from a sword belt hanger with two separate missing rivets. Inverted, the mount has a trefoil top, above the upper rivet, and two bifid projections on its body, the lower ones on either side of the lower rivet. The hook is zoomorphic, probably a swan's neck and head and there is a moulded pattern of foliage in relief on the outward face, but the surface is quite corroded. There is also residue remaining around the two rivet holes on both sides of the mount.The picture shows the mount inverted to how it would have been used, along with others, hooked onto a larger plate, to hold up a sword belt (see Read below).Read (2001) illustrates similar examples on pages 42-43, Figs. 25-26, Nos.359 & 373, which are both dated to the 16th 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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