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Description: | A copper-alloy incomplete probable horse harness fitting. This fitting consists of a straight rectangular shaped horizontal bar, with rounded corners, a rounded front face and a flat back face, measuring 25mm in length and 5mm in width. Projecting from the centre of the lower edge of this bar there is a hinge, with the remains of an iron rivet through it. Projecting from the back face near to the edges of the short ends of the bar there are two cylindrical protrusions, these may be complete but worn, or possibly curved and formed one continuous bar, which is now incomplete. This fitting is similar to harness pendant suspension mounts, which also have a hinge, from which the pendant hung but which have rivet holes rather than protrusions on the back face. These similar harness pendant suspension mounts have been discovered in London and have been dated to the medieval period, between 1150-and 1450 (Clark 1995, 69, fig 52). | 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: | 1150
1450 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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