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Description: | A broken cast copper-alloy mouth-piece from a post-medieval horse's snaffle bit. The bar has an incomplete loop, worn at the break; it is broken before the second one at the other end. The loop has an oval cross-section and is 5.1mm thick. The bar is decoratively twisted and has corroded to an orange-brown colour with areas of overlying mid-green corrosion product. It is slightly curved in profile.The bar would have attached to another like it at one end, and to the ring-type cheek piece at the other. The ring then held the strap for the reins and another for the bridle.A snaffle bit made from iron can be found illustrated in Read (2001, 69; ref. 517). Copper-alloy bits can be found in Ottaway and Rogers (2002, 2959; ref. 14687) and also on this database: CORN-446DB5, HAMP2956. The examples in the literature have been dated to around the 16th century, although a later post-medieval date cannot be ruled out.
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