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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy harness link of Late Early-Medieval, eleventh century date. Length 54mm, maximum width 23.5mm and 9mm thick at the central boss. Weight 17.09g. When complete the piece consisted of a central boss connected to a loop each side by a short arm. The loop is tri-lobed. However one of the loops is broken and missing. The breaks appear to be old. Viewing the strap link in plan, with the surviving loop to one side, the central boss is hemispherical-shaped and is flanked either side by a closely related vertical moulded rib. The boss is hollow on the underside. Both arms are D-shaped in cross-section, flat on the underside. One arm is shorter than the other. The arm connecting the boss to the loop, which is now missing, is 8mm in length and the other arm is 10mm in length. The surviving loop is roughly lozenge-shaped with a sub-circular opening which has a maximum diameter of 13mm. Two of the corners of the lozenge are furnished with a distinct rounded knop. However, a third corner is plain and does not have knop. The underside of the loop is chamfered (it slopes outwards from the top of the opening towards the bottom edge of the loop). Assuming that the broken loop was of the same dimensions as the surviving loop, the overall length of the link would have been about 72mm. The harness link is in a stable condition and below a thin pale green surface residue the metal is a mid-brown colour. | 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: | 1000
1100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Frank Basford | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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