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Description: | This is an unusual copper-alloy item consisting of two pierced loops, 11mm in diameter, with perforations of approximately 7mm diameter, cast in one piece either side of a central baluster-shaped lump or swelling with circumferent grooves or channels upon it. The effect is therefore as of a figure-of-eight, but with a triple-banded barrell between the two loops. It is clear that this has formed some kind of link or chain element because the outer ends of both loops (the body of which are about 3mm in thickness or gauge)have worn excessively, in one case to extreme thinness and in the other completely broken through. The wear has therefore occurred while the metal was held under tension with straps or other links at either end pulling apart from each other and simultaneously chafing and abrading these loops. A harness seems the most obvious context for such a series of abrading stresses. The object has the appearance of an Iron Age or Roman artefact, though no obvious parallel for it has been found.
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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