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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy sword belt hanger, missing its hook at one end, with openwork decoration in the form of a trefoil plate with three apertures: two teardrop-shaped and one heart-shaped. The plate then narrows to a bifurcate collar, and then tapers slightly to a bar which is rectangular in plan, profile and section, and broken at its terminus. There is a rounded knop beyond the ovoid plate, which probably extended to encompass a rivet hole at this end of the hanger, and there may have been another attachment plate at the opposite end where the hanger tapers and is broken. The hanger may also have had a hook at this broken end, which would have held a ring or eye that suspended a secondary bar plate or fitting from the strap that the fitting was riveted to. The hanger appears to have been tinned as it has a white metal appearance and is now quite brittle, but it has also been waxed since it was found which has left a residue that is now flaking off.See CORN-AF8082 for a complete sword belt hanger and strap fitting, and IOW-0A0576 for a similar hanger, on the database.Read (2008) illustrates a similar example of a hooked strap fitting with a trefoil openwork plate on page 232, No.828, which is dated from the 17th century.Margeson (1993) illustrates an openwork hooked strap fitting and a sword belt mount with a knopped terminal and an openwork plate which tapers to a raised collar and then rectangular stem on page 39, Fig.22, Nos.259 & 261, which are dated from the 16th to the 17th century.
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