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Description: | T-shaped strap-union with three separate loops for attaching straps. The centre of the T is a raised square with ?niello-inlaid decoration of a double-strand saltire. The arms of the T are square loops, each decorated with oblique grooves on their side faces. In each of the square loops is a small strap-loop; the front part of each one is expanded into a triangular terminal which contains a separate copper-alloy rivet. One rivet survives intact and shows that the strap it held was 2 mm thick. The whole thing is small ?? the T measures 16 x 13 mm. What exactly it was used for is uncertain ?? a spur has been suggested, but there is no three-strap junction on any spur I can find which would have needed such a fitting. It seems too small for horse-harness. | Subjects: | Strap union | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Hinds, Katie - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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