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Description: | Medieval cast copper alloy pendant arched belt fitting, to suspend a purse or other item such as a knife from the belt. The fitting has two equal semi-circular arches meeting at the centre with an indent at the top of the junction and a large lobed knop on the lower side of the junction. The outer ends of the arches continue into straight bars with squared ends. There are small square knops projecting from the under side of the bars and the bars are slightly thickened at this point. Bar mounts on the belt with loops at the lower edge would have been fitted over the horizontal bars to suspend the hanger from the belt. These knops would have prevented the loops coming off the end of the bars. The mount is trapezoid in section with a flat back and front and angled sides. It is 46.5mm long, 12.1mm wide and 1.9mm thick; it weighs 2.01 grams.A similar, but three arched, example complete with bar mounts is illustrated by Egan and Pritchard (1991:223), no.1198, and dating to the later 13th to early 15th centuries AD. NLM-8BC1F7 on this database is a similar two arched example complete with bar mounts. Griffiths, Philpott and Egan (2007:125-6) no.1282 also appears very similar to this example with two arches and a large plain knop between them.
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