A copper-alloy suspension loop for a sword belt found at Heath Wood, Ingelby, Derbyshire. (c) Derby Museum and Art Gallery
A copper-alloy suspension loop for a sword belt found at Heath Wood, Ingelby, Derbyshire. (c) Derby Museum and Art Gallery

A copper-alloy suspension loop for a sword belt found at Heath Wood, Ingelby, Derbyshire. (c) Derby Museum and Art Gallery A copper-alloy suspension loop for a sword belt found at Heath Wood, Ingelby, Derbyshire. (c) Derby Museum and Art Gallery

Suspension Loop (1985/225-1)

A copper-alloy suspension loop for a sword belt found at Heath Wood, Ingelby, Derbyshire

This copper-alloy suspension loop was found in Mound 1 at Heath Wood, Ingleby and was probably part of a sword belt. The loop is wide enough for a doubled strap to pass through, so it may have been used to suspend the scabbard from the belt. It has been suggested that this one was probably Anglo-Saxon in origin, because this style is not known from Scandinavia, but that did not stop a Viking acquiring it and being buried with it.

Object Type

Sword belt

Date

circa 850 — 900

Style

Ascribed Culture

Original/Reproduction

Original

Material

Collection

Viking Objects

Current Location

Derby Museum and Art Gallery

Keywords

Anglo-Saxon, burial mound, copper_alloy, Derby_Museums, Derbyshire, Mound 1, sword_fitting

Further information

You can see the original at Derby Museum and Art Gallery.

This object is related to Ingleby, Derbyshire.
Find out about Ingleby, Derbyshire.

Acknowledgements

(c) Derby Museum and Art Gallery

References

Richards, Julian D., et al. ‘Excavations at the Viking Barrow Cemetery at Heath Wood, Ingleby, Derbyshire.’ The Antiquaries Journal, 84, 2004, pp. 23-116

Medieval Archaeology Journal (1995)

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