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Description: | An incomplete Early Medieval (Anglo-Scandinavian) to Medieval cast copper alloy harness link or strap distributor (1000-1100 AD).The distributor would one have had has four short arms in the form of an equal armed plain cross; three of these arms remain with the fourth missing through an old break. The arms are sub rectangular in cross section, slightly convex at the top and flat on the underside. At each end of two of the arms there is a sub-circular loop with a sub-circular aperture. The loop on the third arm is missing due to an old break. The surviving loops are bevelled on the top and underside. At the centre of the cross there is an integral sub-spheroid boss, 16mm high. Similar artefacts have been recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database. For example, see finds: ESS-C66235; KENT-E0A1F4; KENT-5C33E; NLM-C681E7 and NMGW-A32297.Williams (2007) page 5-6 discusses harness fittings and suggests they date to the 11th century AD. A similar example can be seen in Williams (2007) figure 6. f), page 5 and recorded as NLM-C681E7.
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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