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Description: | A incomplete cast copper alloy hooked fitting from an asymmetrical sword belt mount, dating to the Medieval/ Post Medieval period, between AD 1500 ? 1600 (length: 48mm; width: 20mm; thickness: 4mm; weight: 8.1g). The main body of the hooked fitting is sub-triangular in plan and flat in section, with a narrow angular shank and hook (curving round to the front of the artefact) extending from the top. The hook also has a stumped and sub-circular terminal. The main body has a border (thickness: 2mm) around the outside edge comprising of small multiple incised linear markings. Within this border, there is highly elaborate and incised scrollwork and foliage decoration. There are two rivet holes on the main body: one at the top and one at the bottom. Only one iron rivet survives in the lower rivet hole, whilst the other higher rivet is now empty. Overall, the hooked fitting is in a slightly worn but fair condition with a dark green patina. This hooked fitting would have originally been accompanied by two other similar fittings that would have been suspended from the man body of the mount by suspension loops. A similar and complete example is illustrated in Read, B, 2001, ?Metal Artefacts of Antiquity: A Catalogue of Small Finds from Specific Areas of the United Kingdom: Volume One?, pages 39 & 43, fig 26, ref no 373, which was found in West Somerset and is also dated to the c. 16th century. | 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 | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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