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Description: | An incomplete post-medieval copper alloy hooked strap fitting for a sword belt, dating to the 17th century. The sword-belt fitting consists of a hooked mount with a separate trefoil attachment suspended from the hook. A separate copper alloy plate, formerly riveted to the back, is missing.The hooked mount, which is convex at the front and concave at the rear, has a sub-circular central element, faceted longitudinally and flanked at the top and bottom by transverse collars: above is a circular terminal with a central pointed knop, while below is the rearwards projecting blunt hook, oval in cross-section. A large, copper alloy rivet is situated just above the hook and projects to the reverse, while fragments of two copper alloy wire rivets remain in the terminal. The hooked mount is 33.2mm long, a maximum of 14.7mm wide and 3.7mm thick.Suspended from the hook is the separate copper alloy trefoil attachment with a small stalk between two of the 'foils', flat on both faces and rectangular in cross-section. It has three large holes (diameter c.4.5mm), one of which the hook passes through. The attachment is 12.7mm long, 10.1mm wide and 2.1mm thick.The hooked mount now has an uneven brownish-purple patina, with patched of dark green, while the trefoil attachment has a more even dark grey patina. In total the sword belt fitting is c.48mm long and weighs 6.96g.A very similar hooked mount with trefoil pendent fitting is illustrated in Read (2001) p30 & 42, fig.25, no.862, which the author identifies as a sword-belt fitting and dates to the 17th century. Another close parallel from Hampshire, complete with riveted backplate, is published on the PAS database as HAMP-21BFA1.
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