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Description: | Medieval cast copper alloy incomplete artefact, formed of a curved bar with an oval cross section. There is one bifrucated terminal, and the other terminal is damaged and incomplete. There is a rectangular loop extending from the upper surface just before the complete terminal. The upper surface of the artefact has cast grooves at regular intervals across its width. The artefact has traces of gilding in the grooves and on the terminal. Where the gilding has not survived the metal is reddish-brown in colour.The object is 48.09mm long, 49.05mm wide, the bar is 5.70mm wide by 4.54mm thick. The loop is 11.76mm long, 4.23mm wide and is 2.05mm thick. It weighs 13.48 grams.The object is possibly part of a harness fitting - see WILT-5EE5A3 for a similar artefact.
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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