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Description: | An incomplete post-Medieval copper-alloy strap fitting for a sword belt (1600-1700).This fitting is in the form of a hooked mount. However, the hook is missing due to a break.It is tri-lobed and pierced for a rivet at one end. It has a waist below and beyond the waist the sides flare and then taper to the transverse break.At the front, converging lines represent a vine-leaf motif and the rear face is flat and plain.This fitting is drab green with traces of a dark green patina. It has Iron staining around the rivet hole. The break is old..Height: 32.9mm; width: 16.9mm; thickness: 1.8mm. Weight: 5.22g.Similar fittings are illustrated and discussed by Brian Read (2001, 30, fig. 25, refs: 359 and 360), who suggests they are sword-belt attachments and date to the 16th century.Read, B. 2001. Metal Artefacts of Antiquity. Portcullis Publishing. Langport.
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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