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Description: | A cast copper alloy sword belt fitting of Post-Medieval date. It has a sub triangular plate with a trilobate terminal at one end and two smaller projecting lobes at the other from which extend an integrally cast hook. The hook is U-shaped in form, circular in section and curves forwards terminating in a globular terminal. On the front face of the plate and lobes is moulded foliate (vine leaf) decoration, with the remains of two central iron rivets visible, one positioned at each end of the plate. The back face is flat and undecorated. A ring remains in place round the neck of the hook and is part of the other other plate from which this item would have been suspended. The loop is broken where it would have had a neck attaching it to the other plate. They have a rich green patina.This is one piece from a larger sword belt fitting of Post-Medieval date comparable to a published example from Somerset (Read, 2008: no. 793). It is of probable 16th to 17th century AD date.
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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