One of a pair of all steel belt pistols with heart-shaped pommels, signed W.S., about 1660 - 1670

One of a pair of all steel belt pistols with heart-shaped pommels, signed W.S., about 1660 - 1670

Pieces of a leather belt with a plain metal buckle, found on top of a jacket at Gunnister, Shetland

Belt hook key chain with detachable key ring, and eight iron cabinet keys of various types, found in Loch Leven, Kinross-shire, 16th century

Button or belt mount of bronze, circular and hollow with loops underneath, found in 1869 at Grosvenor Crescent, Edinburgh, Scotland

Silver belt buckle from Traprain Law, East Lothian, 410 - 425 AD

Silver terminal or tab for a leather belt, from Traprain Law, East Lothian, 410 - 425 AD

Silver belt terminal from Traprain Law, East Lothian, 410 - 425 AD

Viking bronze belt buckle with enamel settings, from Ballinaby,

Flat, silver belt buckle, with hinged loop and hook-catch, the front decorated with Anasazi style geometric design in overlay technique with a mounted turquoise stone, marked 'Lomadapki': North America, USA, Arizona, Flagstaff, Hopi, by Bob Lomadapki, 1992

Woven nettle fibre belt decorated with coloured cloth and blue glass beads, carrying seal and sharksin pouches, antler tip and two knives: Sakhalin, Ainu, 19th century

Belt from which to suspend knife and sheath, leather with pierced circular brass ornaments and fittings: Japan, Hokkaido, Ainu, 19th century

Belt hook of white jade, the recurved ends carved with the heads of dragons: China, late 19th century

Belt hook of gilded bronze with decoration of two animal heads with glass eye-bead roundel between them: China, Han Dynasty

Belt hook of bronze, inlaid with gilt, and with animal head terminals: China, Han Dynasty, 206 BC - 221 AD

Belt ornament of carved wood, for attachment to an official's waistband (gakdae): Korea, Joseon Dynasty, late 19th century AD