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Description: | Incomplete Post Medieval cast copper alloy hooked strap fitting. The mount has a central rectangular plate with a hollowed back and bevelled sides. At one end of the plate is a short projecting rectangular arm with three transverse raised bands on the front and the stub of a copper alloy rivet on the back. From the end of this arm projects a hook, now mostly lost to an old break. At the other end of the plate an oval convex and flat backed lobe projects form the centre which terminates in a pointed knop. There is the corroded remains of an iron rivet through this upper lobe. It is 46.7mm long, 19.8mm wide and 6.8mm thick, it weighs 15.64 grams. A similar example is published in Read (2008) p.218, no.786; which he suggests possibly came from a sword belt and dates to the 16th-17th 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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