Baldric for a late roman spatha?

[Thomas V.]

I'm still confused about the silver tube? According to your theory, what is it? An end to one of the belt ends (like on a shoelace?)

According to my theory it was a late Roman tubular belt terminal, albeit one of a sword belt instead of a regular belt. There where three kinds of such belt terminals: integral part of the belt plates (or buckles), clamped onto the belt plates (or buckles), clamped onto the leather of the belt. The third type inspired my reconstruction proposal (as the Kemathen tube looks like some kinds of said type of tubular belt terminals and also belongs to the same time frame).

My two sketches clearly show that I don't consider the silver tube as an aglet.