https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/templates/general_wide/img/logo.png UKDFD Recording Software https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ Sword-belt and scabbard fittings https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/mounts/sword-belt-and-scabbard-fittings.html Sword Belt Fitting https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/mounts/sword-belt-and-scabbard-fittings/sword-belt-fitting-59417.html Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:57:28 GMT Sword-belt and scabbard fittings Sword Belt Fitting  
Description: A post-medieval sword-belt fitting: the looped element of a two-part clasp. The fitting comprises an openwork plate with cordate terminal and centre, and a sub-rectangular loop for connection to a separate corresponding fitting. There are possible traces of tinning or silvering to the surface.

Complete clasps of this type consist of one hooked and one looped element. For an example of a hooked element, see UKDFD 22266 and UKDFD 39147
 
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Mounts, Sword-belt and scabbard fittings
Category: Sword-belt and scabbard fittings
]]> Hooked Mount https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/mounts/sword-belt-and-scabbard-fittings/hooked-mount-58790.html Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:29:10 GMT Sword-belt and scabbard fittings Hooked Mount  
Description: An incomplete hooked mount, possibly a fitting for suspending a sword scabbard. The mount is of generally trapezoidal shape, with a double-incurved top edge (one side damaged) and a waisted hooked end. There are two rivet holes on the vertical centre-line. The hook itself has broken off.

See also UKDFD 5069 and UKDFD 20052.
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Mounts, Sword-belt and scabbard fittings
Category: Sword-belt and scabbard fittings
]]> Hooked Mount or Clasp https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/mounts/sword-belt-and-scabbard-fittings/hooked-mount-or-clasp-58254.html Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:41:50 GMT Sword-belt and scabbard fittings Hooked Mount or Clasp  
Description: An incomplete mount or clasp with an oval body and a recurved hook at one end. The opposite end would have had a pierced terminal knop, but the knop has broken off and is now missing. The front of the mount has engraved and punched vine-scroll decoration. The back has an integral rivet at the hooked end and the remains of a separate iron rivet at the opposite end. The rivets would have secured a thin iron back plate, but this has been lost to corrosion. There is a transverse ridge or collar at the junction between the body and the hook. Fittings of this type are believed to be from 17th century sword-belts.

See also UKDFD 39396, which retains its pierced terminal knop and remnants of the iron back plate.
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Mounts, Sword-belt and scabbard fittings
Category: Sword-belt and scabbard fittings
]]> Sword-Belt Fitting https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/mounts/sword-belt-and-scabbard-fittings/sword-belt-fitting-58035.html Mon, 03 Jun 2024 13:24:46 GMT Sword-belt and scabbard fittings Sword-Belt Fitting  
Description:

A sword-belt fitting of the post-medieval period. It consists of the male element of a two-part toggle-clasp. The fitting comprises an openwork body with an integral extension which has a slightly protruding engagement lug. There are three rivet holes in the body, all retaining iron rivets.

Engagement with the matching female element (see UKDFD 1347) is effected by passing the lug through the rectangular aperture and rotating through ninety degrees.
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Mounts, Sword-belt and scabbard fittings
Category: Sword-belt and scabbard fittings
]]> Hooked Mount https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/mounts/sword-belt-and-scabbard-fittings/hooked-mount-57859.html Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:03:05 GMT Sword-belt and scabbard fittings Hooked Mount  
Description: A small hooked mount, probably of early post-medieval date. The mount is oval with a convex front and a single rivet hole at the centre, which retains the corroded remains of an iron rivet. The integral hook is forward-facing and recurved to form a closed loop. The front of the mount is decorated with a large indented saltire and three transverse grooves at the intersection of the arms.

Possibly a sword-belt fitting.
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Mounts, Sword-belt and scabbard fittings
Category: Sword-belt and scabbard fittings
]]> Hooked Clasp https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/mounts/sword-belt-and-scabbard-fittings/hooked-clasp-57744.html Sun, 26 Nov 2023 17:41:38 GMT Sword-belt and scabbard fittings Hooked Clasp  
Description: The hooked section of an early post-medieval hook-and-eye clasp. The plate is sub-circular and cast in the form of a two-dimensional 'man in the moon' and star, with openwork between them formed by their respective profiles. The hooked element is now missing, having once been integral with, and projecting horizontally from the star. Vestigial traces of silvering or tinning are present on the surface. There are two spiked integral lugs on the back for attachment purposes. For an example of both matching clasp parts, see  WILT-A3317A2.

Brian Read (see ref. below) suggests that clasps of this type are possibly from sword-belts or baldrics. See also UKDFD 21902.
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Mounts, Sword-belt and scabbard fittings
Category: Sword-belt and scabbard fittings
]]> Strap-End Mount https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/mounts/sword-belt-and-scabbard-fittings/strap-end-mount-57484.html Thu, 03 Aug 2023 13:17:54 GMT Sword-belt and scabbard fittings Strap-End Mount  
Description: A shield-shaped strap-end mount with distorted suspension loop and three rivet holes for attachment to leather. It is decorated with a moulded vine-leaf design, and would have been part of a matching set of sword-belt fittings. The three attachment holes retain remnants of iron rivets.

See also UKDFD 36401 & KENT-434311
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Mounts, Sword-belt and scabbard fittings
Category: Sword-belt and scabbard fittings
]]> Sword-Belt Fitting https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/mounts/sword-belt-and-scabbard-fittings/sword-belt-fitting-56998.html Fri, 14 Oct 2022 15:37:00 GMT Sword-belt and scabbard fittings Sword-Belt Fitting  
Description: A sword-belt fitting, the incomplete male element of a two-part toggle-clasp. The complete element would be of similar form to UKDFD 34420. 

Engagement with the matching female element (see UKDFD 1347) was effected by passing the lug through the rectangular aperture and rotating through ninety degrees.
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Mounts, Sword-belt and scabbard fittings
Category: Sword-belt and scabbard fittings
]]> Scabbard Sling Mount https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/mounts/sword-belt-and-scabbard-fittings/scabbard-sling-mount-56790.html Wed, 20 Apr 2022 17:27:31 GMT Sword-belt and scabbard fittings Scabbard Sling Mount  
Description: A large hooked mount from a sword-scabbard sling of the early post-medieval period. The mount is symmetrical, with the remains of a projecting blunt hook at the base. The hook would have been used to suspend the sling from a looped hanger fitted to the sword-belt. The front of the mount has two projecting trapezoidal panels with double-incurved top edges, both decorated with a longitudinal groove. The rounded lower part of the mount is decorated with a lightly ridged horizontal groove to the top, below which there are two incurved notches to each side. The mount has three small holes for attachment, the back is plain.  

See also as similar; UKDFD 35118, NMS-C50F03 & KENT-9E6C77.  Also note related style mount; UKDFD 43760
 
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Mounts, Sword-belt and scabbard fittings
Category: Sword-belt and scabbard fittings
]]> Sword-Belt Fitting https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/mounts/sword-belt-and-scabbard-fittings/sword-belt-fitting-56320.html Fri, 10 Sep 2021 17:50:52 GMT Sword-belt and scabbard fittings Sword-Belt Fitting  
Description: A post-medieval sword-belt fitting: the looped 'eye' element of a two-part clasp. It comprises an openwork plate with cordate centre, a T-shaped terminal for belt attachment, and opposite, a rectangular loop for connection with a separate corresponding fitting.

Complete clasps of this type consist of one hooked and one looped element. For an example of a hooked element, see UKDFD 39147.
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Mounts, Sword-belt and scabbard fittings
Category: Sword-belt and scabbard fittings
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