Record ID: CORN-057FD2
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post-medieval cast copper alloy hooked mount used to suspend a sword scabbard from a baldric, dating from the 17th century. The main body of the mount is circular, domed and convex. At one end there is a moulded collar behind which is a rivet hole with part of the iron rivet still in situ. The surface of the dome is divided into three planes with two ridges radiating up from the collar like a simple scallop shell. There was once a knop on the upper end of the domed section which has broken off. At the opposite edge an integral hook projects from the collar below the…
Created on: Thursday 16th January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 19th February 2020
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Record ID: CORN-556B6F
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy hooked mount from a sword belt, for suspending a sword from a baldrick, dating from the 17th century. The body of the mount is almost square, 22 mm by 20 mm, with a hollow back and a cast loop at the top with a circular rivet hole, 2 mm in diameter, and a small oval knop above. Below the central square section is a bifid transverse collar which then tapers into the hook, now incomplete and 6.7 mm long. On the back of the collar is a rivet, 5 mm in diameter, which may once have held a metal back plate over the hollow back. Read (2016) illustrates a very similar h…
Created on: Thursday 14th February 2019
Last updated: Sunday 10th March 2019
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