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Description: | Cast copper alloy strap fitting for a sword belt of Post-Medieval, sixteenth or seventeenth century date (AD 1500 - AD 1700). The plate is flat and shield-shaped in plan with a top formed by two cusps, concave sides and a rounded base coming to a central point. Projecting from the centre of the rounded end is a hook; it is oval in section and curves forward 225 degrees until the end almost touches the start. At the top centre and in each lower corner is a circular rivet hole. The front face of the plate is decorated with a moulded symmetrical foliage design in relief. The design is in the form of leaves and tendrils springing from a central stem. The leaves vaguely resemble those of the vine. The reverse is flat and plain. It is 49.0mm long, 31.9mm wide and 2.1mm thick, 13.4mm including the hook; it weighs 13.25 grams. This type of fitting would have been attached to a scabbard strap. Read (2008: 219, no. 790) illustrates a similar mount which he dates to the 16th or 17th century.
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