ornamented bronze hook. Beautifully profiled, the shield-shaped fastening plate has an engraved decoration, consisting of two half palmettes, between which a winding line and a simple leaf. With three iron rivets through the corners it was originally fixed on something, perhaps on leather, which gives rise to the suspicion that it served for the fastening of a belt. The absence of solder traces and the iron rivets make attaching to a bronze shell or similar, less likely, ornament, metal, bronze, prehistory -500
ornamented bronze hook. Beautifully profiled, the shield-shaped fastening plate has an engraved decoration, consisting of two half palmettes, between which a winding line and a simple leaf. With three iron rivets through the corners it was originally fixed on something, perhaps on leather, which gives rise to the suspicion that it served for the fastening of a belt. The absence of solder traces and the iron rivets make attaching to a bronze shell or similar, less likely, ornament, metal, bronze, prehistory -500
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