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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy horse harness suspension mount, dating to the 14th century AD (length: 56.3mm; width: 9.6mm; thickness: 3.2mm; weight: unknown). The mount is a horizontal and decorative bar, with only stumps remaining where the suspension loops would have extended from underneath. To either side of the central square platform, the bar becomes narrow or slightly pinched in shape, before expanding outwards to a rectangular-shaped platform to either side where criss-cross decoration seems to appear on the front face. At each end, there is again a narrow indentation before extending out into triangular-shaped tips one rivet hole in the centre. No rivets survive. On the back of the mount, it is mostly flat about from the tips which slightly point inwards. The artefact is in a worn and poor condition, with a possible dark green/ brown patina, which is made difficult to identify as the artefact seems to have been covered in a substance. Additionally, there is blue tack on the back of the artefact. Similar examples are illustrated in Brian Read?s ?Metal Artefacts of Antiquity: A Catalogue of Small Finds from Specific Areas of the United Kingdom: Volume One?, 2001, pages 40, 47 & 51, fig 30, ref no 389, found in South East Lincolnshire. Other examples are also illustrated in John Clark?s ?The Medieval Horse and its Equipment: Medieval Finds from Excavations in London c. 1150 ? c. 1450?, 1995, page 69, fig 52, ref nos 73-5. | 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: | 1300
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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An incomplete cast copper alloy…
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