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Description: | T-shaped strap-union with three separate loops for attaching straps. The centre of the T is a raised square with ?niello-inlaid decoration of a double-strand saltire. The arms of the T are square loops, each decorated with oblique grooves on their side faces. In each of the square loops is a small strap-loop; the front part of each one is expanded into a triangular terminal which contains a separate copper-alloy rivet. One rivet survives intact and shows that the strap it held was 2 mm thick. The whole thing is small ? the T measures 16 x 13 mm. What exactly it was used for is uncertain ? a spur has been suggested, but there is no three-strap junction on any spur I can find which would have needed such a fitting. It seems too small for horse-harness. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1066
1540 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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