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STRAP FITTING
Unique ID: CORN-AA9415
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Fragment of a cast copper alloy sword belt hanger with just one of the three hooked mounts surviving. The hook has broken off but would have had 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 iron rivet, 3 mm in diameter, to the trefoil terminal which also has an intact iron rivet, 3 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.
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.
Class: sword belt fitting
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 33 mm
Height: 5 mm
Width: 23 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight: 5.6 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 26th May 2016 - Thursday 26th May 2016
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Gwinear-Gwithian (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SW5841
Four figure Latitude: 50.21938713
Four figure longitude: -5.3937934
1:25K map: SW5841
1:10K map: SW51SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read, B. | 2001 | Metal artefacts of antiquity: A catalogue of small finds from specific areas of the United Kingdom | Langport | Portcullis Publishing | 43, fig.26 | no.373 |
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