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

Soldier's belt hook of steel terminating in griffins' heads: Middle East, Iran, 17th century

Incomplete bone belt hook found in a cremation urn, Early Bronze Age, Bargrennan White Cairn, Dumfries and Galloway