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Description: | Cast copper alloy sword belt mount and separate hooked fitting, which would have originally been suspended from the mount, as a sword-belt hanger. The mount and fitting both have moulded foliate decoration on their upper faces which follow to the ogival edges. The mount has two rivet holes and three broken protrusions which would have originally been integral loops to hold the hooks. The one hooked mount that has survived also has two rivet holes, one within the trefoil terminal, and the other within two bifid projections just below the hook. The hook has a bulbous, spherical head to stop it pulling out of the loop easily.The measurements below have been taken of the composite piece.Read (2001) illustrates a similar example on pages 43, Figs. 26, No.373, which is dated to the 16th century.
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