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Description: | Complete cast copper alloy strap fitting for a sword belt of Post-Medieval, sixteenth or seventeenth century date (AD 1500 ? AD 1700). Length 40mm, width 16mm and 1.8mm thick. Weight 4.99g. The plate is flat and is shield-shaped in plan with a straight top, concave sides and a rounded bottom. Projecting from the centre of the rounded end is an integral hook which is sub-circular in cross-section, about 3mm in diameter. A circular rivet hole at each end of the plate is situated along the median longitudinal centre-line. Each hole is 2mm in diameter. The front face of the plate is decorated with moulded foliage decoration in the form of palmate leaves springing either side of a central stem. On the reverse, the rivet hole adjacent to the hook is surrounded by a deposit of iron corrosion. The fitting is generally corroded and in poor condition. | 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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