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Description: | Copper alloy strap-distributor, perhaps from horse harness. Square in shape, it has an openwork short-armed cross at the centre. Each corner is defined by a square element; the corners are conjoined by narrow, recessed, rectangular-sectioned connecting bars. The upper surface of the square corners is decorated with cross-hatched lines. The reverse is flat. The strap-distributor measures 15.5 x 15.5mm and is 2-4mm thick. A separate copper alloy strap-attachment is folded around the recessed section of one of the sides. The strap-attachment has one sub-circular terminal which has an integral square-sectioned rivet on the reverse. The other terminal is flattened and appears to be broken at the ends, but has a notch in which the rivet rests. The terminals are linked by a narrow, straight-sided rectangular-sectioned bar which is folded around the side of the pendant. The upper surface of the sub-circular terminal is engraved with a male bearded face. Patchy dull red-brown and green patina. A similar example found at Middle Harling, Norfolk, also with one surviving strap-attachment folded around the bar, was mis-identified as a horse-harness pendant (Margeson in Rogerson 1995, p. 68, fig. 51, cat. no. 129). Other examples have been found with up to four strap-attachments (e.g. a gilded example from Stoke Holy Cross, Norfolk) making the identification as strap-distributors certain. | Subjects: | strap distributor | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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