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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy sword belt fitting of Post Medieval, sixteenth or seventeenth century date. Length 46.5mm, width 17mm and 2mm thick. Weight 5.35g. The fitting consists of a plate with an integral suspension hook, the terminal of which is broken and missing. The break is old and eroded. The plate is symmetrical in plan and has a roughly elongated heart-shaped central part which is waisted at either end. Both terminals of the plate flare outwards horizontally to form curving corners. At each end of the plate, along the longitudinal centre-line, is a rivet hole. The hole nearest the hook is 2mm in diameter and the hole at the other end is filled with the remains of a copper alloy rivet. The hook, which is sub-circular in cross-section, tapers in width and curves towards the front. The front face of the plate is decorated with a foliage motif consisting of a central stem with fronds branching from it. However, this decoration is barely visible due to corrosion. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1500
1700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Frank Basford | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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