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Description: | A cast copper alloy sword belt strap fitting of probable seventeenth century date. The fitting measures 48mm by 18.6mm by 8.8mm and weighs 9.3g. It consists of a flat rectangular plate with a projecting perforated knop at one end and an incomplete backwards projecting loop at the other. On the back of a flat square section between the main plate and the loop there is the stub of an integrally cast rivet. The front of the plate may have been decorated but this is now too worn to discern. A similar fitting features in Read's 'Metal Artefacts of Antiquity' (2001, pp. 30 and 42, no. 355). In this case it is suggested that the hook would have been used to suspend a sword from a baldrick.
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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