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Description: | A Post Medieval cast copper alloy 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 below which it narrows before widening to rounded shoulders about a third of the way down. From there it tapers to the other end where there are two lugs flanking a forward projecting hook. The hook is sub rectangular in cross section and ends in a spherical terminal. There are two circular fixing holes containing iron corrosion, one near the trefoil terminal and one above the hook. This is one of usually three fittings that together formed a hanging arrangement for a sword. Compare SOM-E367E3 which cites Read (2001 p.39, Fig.26, No.373) as illustrating a complete example dated 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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