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Description: | A copper alloy S-shaped belt fastener dating from the post medieval period. It is 39.4mm long, 19.3mm wide and 4.9mm thick. The fastener has cast decoration on both faces which are identical but more worn on one face. The fastener is in the form of a snake with a head looking sideways at one end and a tail at the other. The eye and nose are clearly depicted on both sides. The neck and body of the snake is decorated with a central ridge running from head to tail and transverse grooves running across it. The fastener is worn but is in good condition with a green and brown patina and some gilding surviving on both sides. S-shaped 'snake belt' fasteners were probably associated with sword belts and parallels can be seen in Bailey's (1997) Detector Finds 3; p21 - 22. They are widely considered to date from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Geake, 2001).
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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