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Description: | Terminal from an Early Medieval cast copper alloy horse harness strap connector. The terminal is lozenge shaped in plan with a circular hole in the centre. The back is bevelled around the hole and there are rounded knops on three of the corners; one of the knops is worn to a point. The fourth corner would have been attached to the connector bar but this has broken and been lost close to the lozenge terminal. The break is old and worn. It is 22.6mm long, 23.3mm and 4.7mm wide thick; it weighs 4.46 grams.The lonzenge shaped head with knops on the corner and in particular a bevelled back are typical features of 11th century Anglo-Scandinavian harness fittings numerous examples of which are recorded on the database, such as BH-3068D6 and SUSS-6EA163. Williams (2007:1) illustrates an example with the attachment in place, fig. 1 and a complete cheek piece with similar terminals (ibid. 2), Figure 2a.
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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