Record ID: NMGW-C93044
Object type: HANGER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Redcar and Cleveland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy sword belt hanger of 16th to early 17th century date The hanger is complete (with an overall length of 37.8mm and a weight of 4.7g). The frame is double-looped and concave (27.5mm wide, 20.8mm long and 5.5mm deep) of bevelled rectangular section. The bar extends to encompass the integral loop (18mm long, 9.7mm wide and 5.2mm internal diameter). The surface is worn and corroded with a pale-green patina, there is a small amount of iron corrosion staining around the loop.
Created on: Wednesday 30th December 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 30th December 2020
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Record ID: CORN-919EEC
Object type: HANGER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy sword belt hanger dating from the Post-medieval period, c.1600-1700. The hanger is a flat plate, roughly triangular in plan, 58.5 mm in width, 50 mm in height/length, 1 mm in thickness and 12.6 g in weight. The plate has been moulded in the form of a stylised thistle, its wider, lower section having two tricuspid floriate heads, with a trapezoidal space between them and the upper part with scalloped edges and a rounded base, representing the calyx of the flower. Above this is a projecting semi-circular hook, 20 mm long and 7 mm in diameter, for suspending the hange…
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 9th December 2019
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Record ID: CORN-7AAA52
Object type: HANGER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy double loop oval sword belt hanger. The frame has angled and bevelled outer edges. The strap bar is trapezoidal in cross section. There is a circular lateral suspension loop, 11 mm in diameter, at right angles to the frame with a drilled circular perforation that is 4.35 mm in diameter. The upper surface has the remains of lacquering. Length 38.2 mm, width 31.5 mm, thickness 3.3 mm, weight 5.6 g. Similar examples can be found illustrated in Whitehead (1996) on p.72, nos.450-451, which are dated from 1500-1630.
Created on: Wednesday 4th December 2019
Last updated: Thursday 5th December 2019
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Record ID: NARC-E5C77C
Object type: HANGER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy possible Pendant Hanger or Sword belt Hanger of Post-Medieval date (AD 1550-1750). The object is sub-triangular plate with an integral upper loop and waisted portions along the plate and shaft connecting the loop to the plate. The plate has traces of a linear decorative pattern, largely obscured by corrosion bi-product. There are a pair of spurs projecting from the lower edge of the loop and similarly from the upper edge of the plate, one of which is missing due to an old abraded break. Length: 30.72mm, Width: 12.62mm, Thickness: 5.75mm, Weight: 2.7g. …
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2019
Last updated: Friday 23rd August 2019
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Record ID: NCL-C3EB31
Object type: HANGER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy fragment of a sword belt fitting dating from the 16-17th centuries. This would have been one of 3 pieces hanging from the main fitting. It is foliate in design and has broken before the end. The end that is missing would have been a hook to attach it to the main fitting. There is a small circular perforation at the un-broken end in which the remains of an iton rivet sit. A similar mount is illustrated in Brian Read (page no. 39, No. 373)
Created on: Friday 3rd May 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 20th April 2022
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Record ID: LVPL-CAAAA2
Object type: HANGER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A incomplete copper alloy belt hanger or strap fitting dating to the Late Medieval to Early Post Medieval period (c.AD1400 - 1600). The plate is broadly rectangular in shape with each corner projecting as a rounded knop. The surface of the plate face is heavily corroded which has obscured the decoration, the remains of which appear to be a floral relief. The plate tapers into a curved hook for which the end has broken off. The reverse of the plate has two raised mounts which formally connected to the attachment spurs. The object is heavily corroded and has a green patina on the sur…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 25th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carreghofa', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-507C41
Object type: HANGER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire East
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval (AD 1540-1700) cast copper alloy belt hanger, possibly for a sword. The object is formed of a closed oval loop, with rectangular inner surface, that processes out into a tail, circular in cross section. This tail loops back on itself and terminates in a knop, giving the whole object a 'U' shape. The tail is now bent around ten degrees from the vertical, when viewed from the front, in an anticlockwise direction. Items like these would have been used in conjunction with a leather belt to suspend items from the body, including swords, purses and other containers.
Created on: Tuesday 26th February 2019
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swettenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-AE12AD
Object type: HANGER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper- alloy object of two interconnected pieces, possibly a belt hanger or other fastening/attachment device. The smaller piece consists of a loop of thick (2mm diameter) copper wire, circular in cross section, semi closed and threaded through the solid loop at the end of the larger piece. The larger piece is a loop of flattened metal, approximately 2mm thick and 6 mm in width, the opening 28 mm in length and the back part flattened. The curved front section is decorated with two crude ovals and a circle, all containing a cross in X orientation. This is separated from the small…
Created on: Tuesday 14th November 2017
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kellington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-A81D50
Object type: HANGER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably a cast copper alloy a fragment of a post medieval sword hanger buckle suggested date 1500 to 1700AD. The bit is in the form of a bar and is at circa 45 degrees from the looped terminal. The bit is rectangular with a central bar. The the upper half of the stem is widened and flattened. Looped terminal. The metal has a mid brownish-green patina and is worn. The length is 51mm, width is 12mm and the weight 4.67g. See DENO-6903DB.
Created on: Thursday 16th March 2017
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2017
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Record ID: SUSS-CCBBB4
Object type: HANGER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy post medieval suspension bar, possibly for a purse AD.1500-1700. The object consist of a tapering copper alloy bar, that tapers in both directions away from the mid point. There is a central integrally cast suspension loop on one side of the bar and an integrally cast rivet mount on the opposed side. Object has a reddish green patina.
Created on: Tuesday 11th October 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 26th October 2016
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Record ID: CORN-BF44C5
Object type: HANGER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy sword belt hanger or pendant suspension mount with openwork decoration and side suspension loops. In what is the centre now of the piece there is a circular aperture that is 6 mm in diameter, flanked by two larger more ovate loops, with 7 mm diameter apertures, that are worn on the outer edges, suggesting that they suspended a hook. But as they are in opposition, perhaps one hooked mount attached to the baldrick above and the other to the sword below, from the belt where this was mounted. There is also a third suspension loop, now broken with the base only…
Created on: Monday 10th October 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 12th October 2016
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Record ID: DENO-B3E063
Object type: HANGER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy sword belt hanger, dating to the post-medieval period (AD c.1500-c.1600). The hanger is foliate in form, with incised decoration that forms a leaf-like pattern. One end is trefoil in shape missing its central knop. Opposite the trefoil is the base of a hook which has snapped. One hole is located below the hook, with the second hole within the trefoil missing. This hanger would have featured as part of a set of three. Dimensions: 29.3mm Long, 18.2mm Wide, 2.5mm Thick.
Created on: Wednesday 10th August 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 18th October 2016
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Record ID: BERK-749F23
Object type: HANGER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval to post medieval gilded copper alloy double loop sword device in the form of a probable strap divider, with integral fixing plate. The item is now a mottled green with remnants of the gilding on the fixing plate and top of the loops.
Created on: Wednesday 20th April 2016
Last updated: Thursday 5th May 2016
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Record ID: LANCUM-1CBA75
Object type: HANGER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Blackburn with Darwen
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron triangular loop with attachment lug. The triangular form appears to be deliberate. It was found in association with LANCUM-1B8257 an iron buckle and may well have been attached and served as either a harness or a sword belt hanger. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1400-1700.The length is 65mm, the width is 71mm thickness 22mm and the weight 51.15g.
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd February 2016
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Record ID: CORN-DD20B1
Object type: HANGER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy sword belt hanger, missing its hook at one end, with openwork decoration in the form of a trefoil plate with three apertures: two teardrop-shaped and one heart-shaped. The plate then narrows to a bifurcate collar, and then tapers slightly to a bar which is rectangular in plan, profile and section, and broken at its terminus. There is a rounded knop beyond the ovoid plate, which probably extended to encompass a rivet hole at this end of the hanger, and there may have been another attachment plate at the opposite end where the hanger tapers and is broken. Th…
Created on: Sunday 15th June 2014
Last updated: Monday 16th June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-337E15
Object type: HANGER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of post-medieval copper alloy sword belt hanger, scrap of cast plate with foliate decoration, trefoil with perforated central foil containing iron corrosion, part of broken loop projects from the lower edge. Surviving dimensions, length 34mm, width 21mm. See Read 2001, fig.26, no.373. Late 16th-17th century.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2013
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2013
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Record ID: CORN-2F93D5
Object type: HANGER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy double-looped rectangular sword belt hanger with an incomplete circular transverse suspension loop at one end of the strap bar. The frame has a narrowed, recessed strap bar and bevelled inner and outer edges on the outer sides of the loop, so that the outer sides are set at an angle. The patina on the upper face has survived well but there are no traces of black lacquer having been used which is common on these sword belt hangers. Whitehead (2003) illustrates a similar hanger on page 76, No.472, which he suggests was used on a sword belt or to suspend a dagger and …
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2012
Last updated: Thursday 20th December 2012
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Record ID: CORN-F91601
Object type: HANGER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tinned cast copper alloy double-looped, recatangular sword belt hanger with a rectangular suspension loop that is slightly recessed from the frame, but alligned with it, and a narrowed central strap bar that is flush with the frame. The probable copper alloy wire pin is missing. The back of the frame is flat but the upper face has bevelled inside and outer edges, so that the frame is trapezoidal in section. There are large patches of tinning remaining on the upper face of the frame. Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar sword belt hanger on page 76, No.470, which is dated from c.13…
Created on: Wednesday 5th December 2012
Last updated: Thursday 20th December 2012
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Record ID: IOW-E2F2A5
Object type: HANGER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-Medieval cast copper-alloy sword belt hanger (c. 1575-c. 1700). The plate is elaborately shaped. Before being damaged and broken it probably had a trefoil terminal at one end. This part is missing. The whole of the upper face has a foliate decoration in relief. There are three evenly spaced rivet holes along the linear centre-line, one at the centre and one at each end. One of the holes at the end is filled with the decayed remains of an iron rivet. On one of the longer sides there is a complete integral suspension loop and the remains of another, both in the same…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd March 2011
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-9D53B5
Object type: HANGER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Anglo-Scandinavian cauldron chain 8th/12th century AD part of an extensive collection from a known settlement. The length is 330mm, width of hook 25mm and diameter of rings 30mm
Created on: Tuesday 29th June 2010
Last updated: Monday 16th December 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LEA GREEN', grid reference and parish protected.