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Description: | Fragment of a Post Medieval cast copper alloy sword belt hanger. One end of a larger plate remains, the rest is lost to an old break. The remaining section includes a trefoil terminals at one end with a circular rivet hole in the central leaf of the trefoil. Beyond the terminal is a neck from which it widens towards the break. The front is decorated all over with foliate decoration in relief. A loop (one of originally three) projects down from the widened part just before the break. The loop is in the same plane as the plate; it is oval with a worn circular hole. The fragment is 27.5mm long, 28.3mm wide and 3.1mm thick; it weighs 4.22 grams. Read (2001), fig.26, no.373 publishes a more complete example of a similar strap fitting which he dates to the late 16th-17th centuries and there are several on this database including HAMP836.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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