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Description: | Incomplete late Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) to early Medieval cast copper alloy harness fitting, dating circa AD 1000 to 1150.The fitting is formed of a central bar with an incomplete loop at each end. The bar is rectangular with slightly concave sides and a rounded rectangular cross section. There is a raised circular boss at one end of the bar, located immediately before the bar extends out into a loop. The loop at this end of the fitting is oval, and is incomplete with a break through the outer edge; the metal is thinned on each side of the break, suggesting that the damage occured due to heavy wear. The loop at the opposing end of the bar is also incomplete; the surviving section of this loop is angled suggesting that this may have originally been lozengeform with a circular opening. Again these breaks are worn with the metal thinned to each side. These loops would have been used to secure leather straps.The fitting is a reddish-brown in colour with light green corrosion covering the sides and the inside of the loops.The fitting is 42.76mm long and weighs 12.39grams. It is 9.49mm wide and 7.27mm thick across the boss, 6.56mm wide 4.76mm thick across the arm. The incomplete circular loop measures 18.59mm wide, 14.45mm long and 4.71mm thick. The incomplete lozengeform loop measures 22.26mm wide, 10.37mm long and 4.27mm thick.cf Read, 2001 ' Metal Artefacts of Antiquity' Fig 38, nos. 474-9
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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