Rights Holder: Lincolnshire County Council
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Unique ID: LIN-553E0E
Object type certainty: Certain
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A Post Medieval sword belt mount dating to the 16th century. The plate is flat and in the form of a large tapering leaf. The mount has a tri-lobed end, the outer lobes more flared, and one now missing to an old break. Below the end is a narrowed waist which then expands forming rounded shoulders before tapering in width and then expanding again to a smaller tri-lobed plate with a hook at the lower end. The hook curved forward and is circular in section with a spherical knop at the end which is close to the plate. The front of the mount has raised, cast floriate decoration in a design known as 'vine-scroll'. There are the rusted remains of an iron rivet towards the top and a hole for a second towards the lower end which is surrounded by iron corrosion. Attached to the loop is a fragment of the upper plate.
This is one of usually three fittings that together with a upper plate formed a hanging arrangement for a sword. Read (2008: 220, No.793) illustrates a complete example of such a hanger which he dates to the 16th century AD and there are several others on this database including SOM-EF4646.
Class: Sword belt
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Quantity: 1
Length: 58 mm
Width: 21 mm
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: TF5268
Four figure Latitude: 53.18737812
Four figure longitude: 0.27343031
1:25K map: TF5268
1:10K map: TF56NW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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