STRAP FITTING 1013531

Description: An incomplete post medieval copper alloy hanging mount or strap fitting, dating to c AD 1500 - 1600. It is a flat plate, broadly trapezoidal in plan, and may originally have had a heart shaped upper edge, now damaged with one lobe missing. It tapers to a pseudo collar from where an integral reversed hook extends. The hook holds a circular ring, D-shaped in cross-section. There is no decoration. There are two rivet holes in the plate, placed centrally, one close to the upper edge, the other close to the top of the hook. There is encrustation around the upper hole, possible the remnant of the rivet. Dimensions: 31.76mm in length (not including the ring); 12.44mm in width; ring 10.5mm diameter; weight 2.6g See IOW-948568 for very a similar mount which states: Two very similar objects are illustrated in Margeson (1993) fig. 22, nos. 257 and 258. They both came from early 17th-century contexts in Norwich, and are thought to be sword-belt fittings.

Date: 1500 - 1600

Object type: STRAP FITTING

Last import: September 22, 2022