Record ID: HAMP-A4F6E7
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Post-Medieval (1500-1700) copper alloy sword belt fitting, consisting of a hooked plate looped into a suspension loop with a fragment of adjoining mount. This fragment of mount would have had three suspension loops from which a trio of such hooked plates would have hung. In turn, the scabbard straps would have been attached to these plates. The hooked plate is roughly triangular in form, with the remains (worn break) of a pierced knop (for the iron rivet) at one end while the globular-terminalled hook, which curves back on itself to meet the decorated face of the p…
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 17th March 2023
Spatial data recorded.