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Description: | Fragment of a late Iron Age bridle bit of either three or four part form. The piece is one side of the bit with the linking rings at each end broken. The bar is straight, oval in section and concave, thinner at the centre than the ends. At one end is the remains of a broad attachment loop for the cheek ring in the form of a strip. About a third of the loop survives but the sides are damaged and incomplete so the exact form is unclear, it is currently 12.2mm wide by 12.1mm across. At the other end the loop is entirely missing and the piece ends in a worn and broken circular end having straighted for a short section after the flared part; this end is 12.4mm by 11.9mm.One side is decorated with a deeply indented line running along half the lengh from the cheek ring end and flaring out to a triangular indent which takes up the entire width at the base, by the cheek ring. The indented line is flanked by slightly irregular lines of closely spaced indented dots which meet at the top of the indented line and continue as a single line to the other end of the piece. As the bit starts to flare out to form the ring at the other end the line of dots splits into three, one continues straight and the others run at 45 degrees away from it. These outer lines stop short of the current end of the bit.It is 45.6mm long, 8.3mm by 7.1mm in the centre and weighs 20.07 grams.Jope (2000) illustrates similar examples with a solid bit bar (plate 278b fromMiddlebie, Dumfriesshire) and two part bar (plate 275e from Llyn Cerrig Bach, Anglesey). Another similar piece with similar decoration is illustrated by MacGregor (1976) cat no 2-11/ example 2 from Birrenswark, Dumfriesshire, Northumberland.
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