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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy sword-belt hanger Post-Medieval in date. It is missing two decorative plates and the majority of a third due to old breaks, now worn.It is asymmetrical and a flattened D-shape in section. The front face is decorated with scrolled foliage decoration. The back face is flat and undecorated. At the base of the plate are three integral circular suspension loops. From one loop the hook and top of a separate copper-alloy decorative plate survives. The front face of the plate is decorated with scrolled foliage decoration.This sword-belt hanger measures 43.60mm in length (including decorative plate), 27.47mm in length (without plate), 98.39mm in width, 2.15mm in thickness, 18.90g in weight.There is a similar example in Read (Read, 2008, pp. 220, no. 793). | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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