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Description: | A fragment of gilded copper alloy 16mm long and 14mm wide. It is in good condition with a green patina, and weighs 2.13g. The fragment is roughly T-shaped, and has a raised border c. 2 mm thick around a panel of chip-carved interlace; the interlace has traces of gilding. On the reverse are the remains of a rectangular-section attachment lug 4mm long and 2mm thick. Susan Youngs has suggested that it may be a fragment of strap-union, attached to a leather strap by passing the lug through a slit in the leather and then threading a pin through a hole in the lug. This object may belong to a group of similar strap or harness fittings which includes an example recorded on the PAS database from Freckenham, Suffolk (SF8875). They date to the eighth or ninth century and have Irish affinities, but may have been spread to England by later Viking activity.
The object has been donated to Leicestershire Museums by the finder.
The Jewry Wall Museum in Leicester has a more complete example of a similar object, from Newton Linford. | Subjects: | Irish | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Scott, Wendy - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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