STRAP FITTING 918531

Description: Cast copper alloy hooked mount from a sword belt dating from c.1500-1600. The object is one of the three hooked mounts that would have been suspended from a larger mount riveted to a belt. The hooked mount has foliate decoration and a single hook which terminates in a spherical knop.. The attachment plate of the hook is leaf shaped with small foliate knops at either side just below the hook and at the other end there are two semi-circular cut outs which lead into two larger knops on either side of a pointed knop creating a trefoil terminal. Two iron rivets are still intact in the plate and are 3 mm in diameter with iron corrosion around it. The countersunk hole has a diameter of 5.5 mm on the back of the mount so that the rivet would have been flush with the surface. The mount closely resembles the components of a four-part sword belt mount from Somerset which is illustrated in Read (2001) on p.43, fig.26, no.373, and dated from the 16th century and is similar to an example recorded in CORN-CCEB15.

Date: 1500 - 1600

Object type: STRAP FITTING

Last import: September 22, 2022