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Description: | Two copper-alloy strap links, perhaps originally swivelling. One has a neatly circular loop, 7 mm internal diameter and 11 mm external diameter. The other has a less neat loop, slightly oval and having some internal wear; it is 13 mm wide externally and measures 8 x 9 mm internally. The loops are then joined by a solid part, a varying oval in cross-section, which has a circumferential groove around it. This groove may represent a junction which has now been corroded solid. Alternatively, as the loops are at exactly right angles to each other, and as there is no swivelling pin visible, the object could have been made as a solid link. The date is uncertain; swivelling links with a similar appearance were being used in the medieval period, but it could also possibly be later or earlier.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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