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Description: | A fitting for a leather strap, probably from part of a horse's harness, for distribution from a loop or ring. The fitting is 37mm long and 7mm wide, and is formed of a single piece of metal 7mm wide and 2mm thick turned right back upon itself, and forming a neat circular ring at one end which is 15mm in diameter. At the summit of the ring the breadth of the metal has tapered to merely 4mm, and in the ring portion the section of the metal is rounded or domed. The two neatly parallel straight elements, which enclosed the strap itself, are 2.5mm apart and are held thus by two iron rivets. Fittings of this kind were fixed to the end of a leather strap, and the looping portion was threaded onto a ring or loop. Very similar mounts occur among the bridle set from Sutton Hoo mound 17, where sometimes two or three similar mounts are attached to a single loop, bringing two or three sets of straps together from different directions. A miniature version of the same arrangement is among objects found with Middle Saxon materials at Coddenham and recorded in this scheme. This fitting is likely to be Anglo-Saxon or Mediaeval in date.
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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