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Description: | Fragment of a cast copper alloy sword belt hanger with just one of the three hooked mounts surviving. The hook has a spherical knop at its terminal, to stop it becoming disengaged from the suspension loop. The mount has expanding moulded foliate decoration below the hook, from the bifid projection with one rivet hole, 2 mm in diameter, to the trefoil terminal which still has an intact copper alloy rivet, 2.5 mm in diameter. This mount, along with two other hooked mounts, would have hooked through another mount with three integral suspension loops, thereby attaching the sword belt to the sword scabbard. This piece was riveted on to a leather strap or sling that suspended the scabbard. The hook ends in a bulbous spherical terminal, which would have held it within the loop.Read (2001) illustrates a similar hooked mount along with the associated parts of the belt hanger on page 43, fig.26, no.373, which is dated from the 16th century.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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