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Description: | Incomplete copper-alloy medieval harness fitting of unusual form. Consisting of a roughly rectangular sectioned shaft which flares towards its base and has a narrower cylindrical projection from its base, allowing the shaft to be fitted into a seperate mount. The other terminal end of the shaft has three integral pairs of loops,(oval shaped projections with circular holes through them), two of the projections are incomplete due to old breaks. Each pair of loops could have had an iron horizontal bar through the holes from which a smaller pendant could have hung originally. There are traces of iron corrosion within the holes, implying that any horizontal bar would have been iron. The tip of this upper terminal tapers to a rounded point above these projections. This harness fitting also has a white metal coating. The shaft measures 59.82mm in length and 9.81mm in width at its base and is 25.95mm in width across the projections.
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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