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Description: | A cast copper alloy strap fitting component of probable late sixteenth to early seventeenth century date. One end of the flat, broadly triangular fitting terminates in a loop and the other end expands into a trefoil. There are two rivet holes, one through the central lobe of the trefoil and one adjacent to the loop. The front of the fitting is decorated with a moulded pattern which comprises a central four-petalled flower and several spirals. Similar sword belt fitting components usually have a hooked end which is threaded through one of the loops on an associated horizontal bar mount, so either the hook and loop were reversed on this example or this component operated differently.
HESH-E2C377, from Wellington, Herefordshire, is a fitting that incorporates a very similar component. This is attached to a separately cast loop, which is in turn attached to another slightly different fitting. Both of the flat plates contain the remains of two iron rivets. | 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: | 1550
1650 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Naomi Payne | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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