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Description: | Copper alloy possible sword belt fitting. The fitting is a flat openwork design split into two main elements. At one end the fitting has a semicircle with a scalloped edge and two small circular perforations (probably rivet holes). The other end of the fitting comprises a roughly triangular element with a large triangular perforation and two small circular perforations below this. Each long edge of the triangle is bevelled and there are two protruding knops down each side. The back of the fitting is flat with no decoration indicating that it was probably riveted onto another item, perhaps a belt or strap.
No parallels have been found for this piece but bears some similarity to those recorded in Brian Reads ?Metal Artefacts of Antiquity? and is likely to be of a comparative date (16th century).
The mount weighs 3.79g and measures 32.14mm in length, 15.18mm in width and 2.9mm in thickness. | 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
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Marshall | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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