Record ID: CORN-2E3BD5
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy hooked mount from a sword belt dating from the Post-medieval period 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 hook is missing on this piece of the mount. The mount piece is leaf shaped and from the broken edge the mount triangulates into two side fronds below two semi-circular cut outs which expand into two larger knops on either side of a pointed knop creating a trefoil terminal. In the middle of the terminal is a small extant iron rivet which is 3 mm in diameter.…
Created on: Wednesday 8th May 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 21st May 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-8F5824
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy hooked sword belt hanger in the from of a thistle flower, flat in section. There appears to be a broken section across the opposite end to the hook, where a belt atachment might have been. On the external arm of the hook there is a moulded foliate pattern that appears as a frond. The surface of the central plate is quite corroded but there does not appear to be any more moulded decoration, just incised lines which are later damage since depostion. Length 41 mm, width 30.5 mm, thickness 2.5 mm weight 11.8 g. Read (2001) illustrates a similar sword belt h…
Created on: Monday 25th September 2017
Last updated: Sunday 8th October 2017
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Record ID: DEV-983F51
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A postmedieval cast copper alloy sword belt hook. The plate is flat and ovoid; on the front it has engraved and punched decoration, the original design is now worn, but it is possible to see punched circlets on the surface. The back of the sword belt hook is plain. At one end of the object, the hook has broken away and is missing; at the opposite end, the top of the attachment knop has broken away. The object dates to the 17th Century AD. A similar object can be seen on the database: FAKL-352D42.
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2013
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