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Description: | A copper-alloy harness fitting, rectangular in shape, 66mm in length and 8mm in width, it is incomplete due to old breaks and one end is bent upwards. It is triangular in cross-section and the back face is flat. The front face is decorated by a transverse rectangular moulding in its centre and another near to one end with a circular perforation through it, which is 3mm in diameter, this end of the fitting then has a narrower transverse rectangular moulding with a groove through its centre and a smaller rectangular protrusion occurs after this which is incomplete. The other end has two transverse ridges before an open rectangular perforation which is incomplete. The front face has also been gilded. Active corrosion is visible on both faces. This harness fitting is likely to be a decorated bar mount, it is similar to an example from London in shape which has similar decorative elements and is medieval in date (Clark 1995, 69, Fig 52, No 73). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Minter, Faye - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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