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Description: | Incomplete cast copper-alloy sword-belt fitting. It is basically sub-rectangular, tapering slightly from an original short edge which has a ridge with oblique slashes resembling cabling to another similar moulding at the other short (narrower) end. From a parallel in Read (2008) p. 209, no. 756, there should then be a rectangular perforation to receive the other half of a clasp, but this is now missing; a tiny stub of the edges of the perforation can just be seen. There is a central circular perforation and semi-circular and V-shaped cut-outs down the long sides. There are two iron rivets surviving, one above and one below the circular perforation. 16th or 17th century.
See Read 2008, p. 208 for a reconstruction of the complete clasp. | 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 | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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