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Description: | Fragment of a heavily corroded cast copper alloy item, possibly a harness fitting. It has a incomplete oval loop or hook at one end; it is unclear whether this was once a loop, now worn though, or was always a open hook. The hook / loop is attached to one end of a short oval sectioned bar; at the other end the bar splits with a thinner section continuing the line of the bar and a projection of at right angles which turns at 90 degrees to run parallel to the bar. Both the bar and projection are broken with a worn break. If the projection is the start of a section loop or a rectangular opening it is at 90 degrees to the plane of the first loop. It is 34.1mm long, 12.6mm wide including the loop and 11.2mm thick including the projection; the central bar is 4.6 by 4.5mm and it weighs 4.50 grams.The use of mutiple loops/opening is seperate planes is common on harness fittings, the corroded and incomplete appearence make it hard to date but it maybe Medieval - Post Medieval.
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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