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Description: | A complete, Post Medieval, cast, copper alloy, spur leather, possible mount, clothing hooked fastener or sword scabbard hook from a baldric? Oval, convex or hollow domed shaped body with a substantial hook on one end and a moulded projection with a rusty iron rivet attachment at the other. There are transverse ridges between the body at each terminal. There may have been a separate back plate, possibly of iron held by a separate copper alloy integral rivet just above the hook but now missing. Some wear with a matt brown surface and some remnants of possible gilding in the groove recesses and on the concave back. This is likely to date to 1600-1699. Ref. History Beneath Our Feet, Brian Read, Anglia Publishing Ipswich 1995, page 147 No. 994-996 and Metal Artefacts of Antiquity, A catalogue of small finds from specific areas of the United Kingdom, Volume 1, Brian Read, Portculis Publications 2001, page 30 & 42 No. 362. The fastener is 48.31mm long, 20.68mm wide, 10.88mm thick and weighs 10.0g.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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