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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy hooked plate from a Post Medieval sword-belt fitting. It is roughly foliate in form, with incised decoration forming a leaf pattern. It has a trefoil shaped terminal at one end, one side of which is lost to an old break, below which it narrows before widening to rounded shoulders about a third of the way down from which it tapers to the other end where there are two lugs flanking a forward projecting hook. The majority of the hook is lost to an old beak with only the stub remaining. There are two circular fixing holes, one near the trefoil terminal containing iron corrosion and one above the hook. It is 37.5mm long, 20.3mm wide and 2.1mm thick; weight 5.75g. This is one of probably three fittings that together formed a hanging arrangement for a sword. Read (2001 p.39, Fig.26, No.373) illustrates a complete example which he dates to the 16th century AD.
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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