Record ID: SF-07401A
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post-Medieval copper-alloy sword belt fitting, dating to c.AD 1500 - 1600.  It consists of an incomplete main plate, which is expanded in the centre, becoming narrower towards its surviving end, which terminates in a trefoil terminal. with an iron rivet in the centre. The other end of this plate is missing. One loop projects from its lower edge and suspended from the plate is a smaller mount with a hooked terminal. The mount has a lobe to either side of its inner end below which its body flares outwards towards its lower end be…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sudbourne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-79C304
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy mount of Post Medieval date, c.16th-17th century (Read 2008). The mount is comprised of a sub-rectangular shield-shaped plate with inwards curving sides and a slight indentation to either side of the upper edge. A forward-facing hook projects from the centre of the lower edge and there is a small, circular attachment hole through each corner at the upper end. The outer face is decorated with a raised foliate and scrollwork motif against a background of heavily corroded greenish enamel. The surface of the metal is corroded and the object is slig…
Created on: Monday 31st July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-F34E85
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy sword belt hanger buckle of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1500 -1630. The buckle is a double loop rectangle with an integral circular lateral suspension loop projecting from one end, above the bar. The sides of the frame are bevelled. The frame is plain with no decoration. The buckle is 48.28mm long including the suspension loop, the frame without loop measures 37.82mm long, 33.15mm wide , 3.21mm thick and weighs 9.2g. The central bar is roughly square in plan and is 2.56mm thick. A similar example is illustrated in Whitehead p.76, no.472 and is dated to …
Created on: Friday 6th July 2018
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2019
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Record ID: SF-F7509C
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A mostly complete cast copper-alloy sword belt fitting of Read's Early Post-Medieval type 7, dating c. 1550-1700. This example retains the remains of its iron rivets. Appearance virtually identical to Read 2008, p. 211, no. 764. Length: 43.61mm, 10.98mm wide at midpoint by 3.20mm thick. Weight: 5.27g.
Created on: Friday 5th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-DAA5A7
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval cast copper alloy hooked mount from a sword belt. Similar to Read 2008, nos. 813-4. An incomplete triple-looped link engaged with the hook is close to ibid. no. 816 but with a broken central loop. Broken across the perforated upper terminal. Above the hook an integral rivet would have secured the missing backplate. Extant length excluding link 29mm. Width 13mm. Link extant length 14mm, width 18mm. 17…
Created on: Tuesday 1st December 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 1st December 2015
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Record ID: NMS-DEB9CE
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy hooked sword belt mount with two rivet holes with remains of iron rivets. An early 17th-century type (Scott, I. in Biddle et al. 2001, 205, fig. 5.6. no. 159). As Margeson 1993, nos. 257-8 and de Reuck 1991, 41, right-hand row, seventh and eight from top. Length and width 27.4 and 13.4mm. c.1600 - c.1650.
Created on: Saturday 7th November 2015
Last updated: Saturday 7th November 2015
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Record ID: SUR-14FEF1
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval cast copper alloy bifurcating hooked fitting from a sword belt set.The tip of the hook is missing. The fitting isdecorated with engraved lines. Three iron rivets survive.
Created on: Saturday 10th January 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
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Record ID: SF-FA9668
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy sword belt hanger of Post-Medieval date. It is rectangular in plan and section, missing one attachment end due to old breaks. The surviving end has a transverse rectangular slot that terminates at each end in vertical rectangular ribs decorated with moulded floral or foliate motifs, the outer of the two ribs being curved in profile with concave back face. From the base of this end extends a flattened, integral loop with circular aperture. The entire fragment measures 21.44mm in length, 20.78mm in width, 2.58mm in thickness and 3.17g in weight. This i…
Created on: Tuesday 28th October 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Acton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-792073
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy sword belt hanger of Post-Medieval date. It is rectangular in plan and section, with a decorative openwork plate. At one end is a transverse rectangular slot that terminates in vertical rectangular ribs with diagonal grooved decoration. From the base of this end extends an integral loop with circular aperture. The opposite end of the object has incomplete openwork decoration comprising pairs of semi-circular notches at top and bottom of the plate and a large central circular aperture. Either side of the central aperture are single circular rivet holes a…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thorndon', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-92FE0D
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy sword-belt hanger Post-Medieval in date. It is missing two decorative plates and the majority of a third due to old breaks, now worn. It is asymmetrical and a flattened D-shape in section. The front face is decorated with scrolled foliage decoration. The back face is flat and undecorated. At the base of the plate are three integral circular suspension loops. From one loop the hook and top of a separate copper-alloy decorative plate survives. The front face of the plate is decorated with scrolled foliage decoration. This sword-belt hanger measures …
Created on: Tuesday 24th June 2014
Last updated: Thursday 3rd July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Reydon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F3041C
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy sword-belt hanger of Post-Medieval date. It is missing one suspension loop and all three decorative plates due to old breaks, now worn. It is asymmetrical and a flattened D-shape in section. At the base of the plate are three integral circular suspension loops. The front face of the plate is decorated with scrolled foliage decoration. The back face is flat and undecorated. This sword-belt hanger measures 66.55mm in length, 29.65mm in width, 2.63mm in thickness, 19.61g in weight. There is a similar example in Read (Read, 2008, pp. 220, no. 793).
Created on: Wednesday 4th June 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 4th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milden', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-061E37
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy hooked mount, broken flat-sectioned plate, face with a pair of engraved longitudinal lines bordering a rivet-hole towards the pointed end and broken across the other where the hooked end is missing. Surviving length 32.5mm. Width 29mm. 1mm thick. Later 16th-17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 12th March 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 12th March 2014
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Record ID: SF-F69CF8
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy sword belt hanger of Post-Medieval date. It is rectangular in plan and section, with a decorative openwork plate. At one end is a transverse rectangular slot that terminates in vertical rectangular ribs with diagonal grooved decoration. From the base of this end extends an integral loop with circular aperture. The opposite end of the object has openwork decoration comprising pairs of semi-circular notches at top and bottom of the platye and a large central circular aperture. Either side of the central aperture are single circular rivet holes and at the end of the p…
Created on: Thursday 27th February 2014
Last updated: Monday 17th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Exning', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-BB8F51
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy sword belt hanger of Post-Medieval date. One end of the plate and part of one suspension loop survive, the remainder of the object now missing due to old breaks. The plate is sub-triangular in form, terminating at one end in old breaks and at the other end has a trefoil or trifoliate terminal with central circular rivet hole. At the lower edge of the plate are the remains of an incomplete suspension loop. The entire object is decorated on its front face with moulded decoration comprising foliate or floral motifs, the back face is flat and undecorated. I…
Created on: Friday 31st January 2014
Last updated: Friday 31st January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near East Bergholt', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-91C320
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval mount from sword belt, trapezoidal plate with flattened V-shaped notch in upper edge ('fly-shaped'), pierced by two rivet-holes both with remains of copper alloy rivet, narrows to hooked terminal. Length 22mm. Width 11mm. Cf. de Rueck (1991) p.41, bottom row, 9th from left. 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 24th October 2013
Last updated: Monday 4th November 2013
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Record ID: SF-8DB864
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy sword-belt hanger Post-Medieval in date. Most of the broadly rectangular plate now survives buts its terminals are missing due to old breaks. It has one surviving rivet hole through its centre. It is decorated on its front face with scrolled foliage decoration. Two of the suspension loops, which held the plates with hooks are now missing. From the surviving loop only the hook of the plate survives. This sword-belt hanger measures 38.95mm in length, 43.24mm in width, 3.64mm in thickness, 13.30g in weight. See Reads example discovered in West Som…
Created on: Thursday 24th October 2013
Last updated: Friday 15th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Butley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-A004D1
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval copper alloy sword belt mount: sub-lozengiform plate with two rivet holes containing remains of iron rivets, hook missing. Length >41mm. Width 23mm. See broadly similar type in Read 2008, 221, no.796. 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Monday 19th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th January 2013
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Record ID: SF-BE2D47
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy sword belt fitting of Post-Medieval date. It has a triangular plate with trilobate terminal at one end and two smaller projecting lobes at the other from which extend an integrally cast hook that is now mostly incomplete due to old breaks. The hook is oval shaped in section and terminates in old breaks just below the plate. On the front face of the plate and lobes is moulded foliate decoration, with the remains of two central iron rivets visible, one positioned at each end of the plate. The back face is flat and undecorated. It measures 41.41mm in lengt…
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2012
Last updated: Thursday 8th November 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Oakley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-F07464
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy sword belt fitting of Post-Medieval date. It has a flat plate that is triangular in form, slightly curved in profile, and tapers to an incomplete hooked terminal at the base. The attachment end has a V-shaped notch and there are two small rivet holes are visible at the centre of the plate containing the corroded remains of iron rivets. At the base of the plate there is a single transverse groove. The hook is D-shaped in section and curves backwards to a rounded point that is now missing due to old breaks. The entire object measures 34.43mm in length, 12.21mm in wid…
Created on: Tuesday 11th September 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 11th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dennington', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-647077
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy sword belt fitting of Post-Medieval date. It has a triangular plate with trilobate terminal at one end and two smaller projecting lobes at the other from which extend an integrally cast hook. The hook is oval shaped in section and terminates in old breaks just below the plate. On the front face of the plate and lobes is moulded foliate decoration, with the remains of two central iron rivets visible positioned at either end of the plate. The back face is flat and undecorated. It measures 41.85mm in length, 18.54mm in width, 2mm in thickness, and weighs 5…
Created on: Thursday 23rd August 2012
Last updated: Thursday 23rd August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Westhall', grid reference and parish protected.