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Description: | An incomplete post-Medieval cast copper-alloy hooked plate from a sword-belt fitting (1500-1700).The hook is missing.Overall, these strap-fittings tend to consist of a mount with three suspension loops from which hang a trio of hooked plates; the scabbard straps would have been attached to these plates. The ensemble features foliate decoration on their visible faces: an illustration of a complete sword-belt fitting can be found in Read (2001, 43; ref. 373). Their design and decoration are relatively standardised. Such fittings 'proliferate in the 16th and 17th centuries' (Geake 2001, 35).This flat fitting is sub-triangular in plan. From the hook end the plate flares out to a width of 14.7mm. Aligned with the base of these side protrusions is a central circular rivet hole containing the remains of a copper-alloy rivet. Below, the object narrows to a waist 9.1mm and then widens again to shoulders, 16.8mm in width. It then narrows and widens to a trefoil terminal which contains a similar rivet hole containing the remains of a copper-alloy rivet. At the front there is a moulded elaborate scrolled foliage pattern consisting of a central stem with fronds either side. The rear face is plain. In side view it is curved slightly.The metal is drab reddish brown with bright green corrosion products. The break at the hook end is old. There is a dark substance in some of the crevices which is probably lacquer.Height: 36.1mm; width: 16.8mm; thickness: 1.7mm. Weight: 4.28g.
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