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Description: | Post-Medieval cast coper alloy belt mount with suspension loop. Hollow domed sub-circular mount with a pierced projection at one end, and a circular hook at the other. There is a transverse moulded at the junctino of the hook with the mount. Iron corrosion around the piercing in the projection, presumably from an iron rivet. Probably a sword belt fitting, 16th or early 17th century. Length 32.6mm, width 14.1mm, thickness 4.6mm, width of loop 8.6mm, thickness of loop 2.5mm, weight 4.32g.See Bailey, 'Detector Finds 3' (1997, Greenlight) p.86 and p.87 for a similar mount described as a sword centre belt fitment and dated to the 16th century.
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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