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Description: | Cast copper alloy hooked mount with an iron and a copper alloy rivet and a pendant fitting that would have helped to suspend a sword scabbard from the sword belt or the belt from a baldrick. The upper rivet hole is within a semi-circular lobe with a pointed knop, and the head of the iron rivet still remains within iron corrosion product. There is a moulded transverse collar where the lobe meets the body of the mount which is round in plan and convex in profile with a hollow back. There is also a transverse collar at the bottom of the mount where the body meets the hook, above a semi-circular attachment plate with a separate copper alloy rivet that is still intact. The hook curves back on itself behind the mount and would have attached to a trefoil eyelet such as the example recorded in CORN-69B695.Similar examples can be seen in Read's History Beneath Our Feet (1988, 147, no.995) and in Read's Hooked-Clasps and Eyes (2008, 227, no.816), which are both dated from the 17th century.
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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